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By ROBERT ELLER
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Alabama State's Lewisl Jackson is
the Black College Sports\ Review's
first-ever Player of the Year as well as a
member of its inaugural Black College |
All-America Team.
Jackson, a 6-6 senior forward who
was also named Player of the Year this
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season in me soutnwestern Athletic '
Conference, averaged 29 points per
game this year to lead the SWAC and
place second in the nation in scoring
behind Akron's Joe Jacubick.
The Wetumpka, Ala., native also hit
58 percent of his shots from the field,
despite constant double- and triple?teaming,
and led Alabama State to a
22-6 record.
Jackson hit 86 percent of his free
throws, best in the SWAC, while
shooting a school-record 202 limes
from the line.
Jackson ended his career at Alabama |
State as the school's third-leading all- |
time scorer with 2,203 points. Says \
Coach James Oliver of the man who"
led his team to an NIT berth as a junior
and made the tournament's all-star
team to boot: "Lewis Jackson is probably
the best and most complete
basketball player I've had the opportunity
to coach, and I've coached some
pretty good ones, like Elmore Smith,
Kevin Loder, Billy Ray Bates and
Travis Grant (all present or former
NBA players).
Jackson, a deadly outside shooter,
will probably be shifted to guard in the
NBA, where, according to scouts, he
has a chance to be a first-round pick/
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jacKson nas aiso oeen seieciea as one
of 73 players from throughout the na- I
tion who will try out for the 1984
Olympic team.
Not far behind Jackson in the Player |
of the Year voting was Norfolk State's I
David Pope. The 6-7, 210-pound I
senior forward was named the Central |
Intercollegiate Athletic Association's
Player of the Year in '84 while leading 4
the Spartans to a 29-2 record, the
number one ranking among Division II
schools during the regular season and
the CIAA Tournament title.
As the only senior on the Spartan
roster, Pope, a native of Newport
News, Va., led the league in scoring
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A four-time all-CIAA pick. Pope
was held under double figures in scor- i
ing only three times in his career and i
was named the NCAA Division II
Player of the Year by Basketball Weekly.
This season, he shot better than 57 <
percent from the field and was the only
Division II player chosen to take part (
in the College All-Star Game in Seattle ]
during the NCAA Division I Final <
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Super-scout Marty Blake calls Pope t
the top pro prospect in Division II this t
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Still another possible number one
iraft choice is the University of the
District of Columbia's Earl Jones, a
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lighly sought-after prepster in the naion
but has been largely overlooked by
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Division II black school.
In his four years at UDC, all Jones I
has done is lead the team to an NCAA
Division II national title as a
sophomore and the national finals last '
season. This season, he missed the 1
team's first eight games with a hernia t
but came back to have an outstanding
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nes Oliver, is concerned (photo by
year without a great deal of support
from his teammates.
Says one Washington writer of
Jones: "It may not look like Earl had a
tremendous year, but he had all the
weight on his shoulders. He was always
:riple-teamed and he even had to hanP/ease
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