Donte Jackson declared following their SWAC match championship win this previous March that Grambling State was a basketball college.
After profitable an NCAA match recreation within the college’s first ever look, the college agreed, extending Jackson’s contract by means of the 2028-29 season Friday afternoon.
“Coach Jackson is for sure probably the greatest basketball coaches within the nation, and we’re blessed that he’s the chief of our males’s basketball program,” GSU athletic director Trayvean Scott stated in an announcement launched by the college. “He has taken our program to heights that haven’t been seen for many years, and we’re assured that he’ll proceed to achieve success and mildew our student-athletes into males who characterize our establishment the proper approach.”
Jackson led the Tigers to the SWAC championship and the most important males’s basketball win in generations, an 88-81 additional time victory over Montana State within the NCAA’s First 4 in Dayton, Ohio. Jackson is the second-winningest coach at school historical past, becoming a member of Grambling legend Frederick C. Hobdy as the one males’s basketball coaches in program historical past with 100 profession wins or extra.
