Following the departure of former head coach Artis Maddox, the Benedict Tigers have introduced their new chief for the lads’s basketball program.
Longtime HBCU coach Dannton Jackson has been tabbed as Benedict School’s subsequent males’s basketball coach, marking his first profession NCAA head teaching job.
“I’m really blessed and excited to be right here at Benedict School,” mentioned Jackson. “It is a particular place with a proud legacy, and I’m able to get to work. My purpose is to construct a program that our college students, alumni, and your entire Benedict household could be happy with. We’re going to compete, we’re going to develop as males, and we’re going to win the best manner—collectively.”
An alumnus of Xavier College of Louisiana (XULA), Jackson started his teaching profession there, serving as an assistant on the lads’s and girls’s basketball groups.
In 2002, he was promoted to move coach of the lads’s basketball crew, a job he held for the following 13 seasons, excluding the 2005-2006 season, which was shut down because of Hurricane Katrina.
Jackson completed with an total report of 294-130, guiding the Gold Nuggets to 10 NAIA Nationwide Event appearances.
Following stints as an assistant coach on the College of Albany and the College of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), he was employed as head coach of Talladega School in 2022.
The XULA alum was tasked with taking up a Talladega crew that had made it to the NAIA Nationwide Championship recreation the 12 months earlier than beneath head coach Chris Wright (now at Langston).
After posting a 12-17 report in his first 12 months with the crew, Jackson helped lead Talladega to consecutive 20-win seasons, together with a 20-9 mark this previous 12 months.
Final season, Benedict School completed with a 6-22 total report, a big dropoff from a 23-8 report the earlier 12 months.
