TOLEDO, Ohio – Junior guard Marreon Jackson was named to the 2019-20 Lou Henson Award Preseason Watch List on Wednesday. The award is presented annually to the nation's top Division I mid-major player.
Jackson opened his season last night by scoring a career-high 27 points and dishing out seven assists at Valparaiso. The Cleveland, Ohio native is the Rockets' leading returning scorer after ranking third on the team last year with 11.7 ppg. He also ranked fifth in the Mid-American Conference with a team-high 4.2 apg and seventh with 1.4 spg en route to earning honorable-mention all-league honors.