PHOENIX, Ariz. | Grambling State College males’s basketball head coach Donte’ Jackson has been named the 2024 Ben Jobe Nationwide Coach of the 12 months. The award is offered yearly to the highest minority head coach in Division I school basketball.
The reigning Southwestern Athletic Convention (SWAC) Coach of the 12 months has adopted up a dominant marketing campaign from final yr with an much more spectacular run this season. This yr, Jackson led Grambling State to its first-ever Division I NCAA Match berth after successful the 2024 SWAC Match
Within the NCAA Match, GSU gained its first event recreation after rallying from a 14-point deficit to defeat Montana State 88-81 in additional time within the First 4 in Dayton, Ohio.
This season, Jackson additionally claimed his second SWAC common season championship in a row, his third total. Grambling State wrapped up the common season with a 14-4 document in convention play and 21-15 total.
Donte’ Jackson additionally claimed his a centesimal victory as head coach of GSU and at the moment has 120 whole wins as GSU head coach, the second most at school historical past behind legendary head coach Fredrick C. Hobdy.
“As a student-athlete who performed for Ben Jobe and the present athletic director right here at Grambling State College, this award is important,” mentioned Vice President for Intercollegiate Athletics Dr. Trayvean D. Scott. “It’s really an instance of Coach Jackson’s continued excellence as the top basketball coach at Grambling State as he’s actually deserving of this honor. Congratulations to Coach Jackson and the Grambling State College males’s basketball program.
The Ben Jobe award is known as in honor of 1 essentially the most iconic coaches within the historical past of basketball at Traditionally Black Faculties and Universities. He’s finest often called the top coach of Southern College, a place he held for 12 seasons. He was additionally head coach at Alabama A&M, Alabama State, Talladega, Tuskegee, and South Carolina State.
His document at Southern was 209-141 and included 4 NCAA Match appearances. He additionally coached the Jaguars to at least one NIT look, 5 SIAC championships, 11 SWAC titles and two NAIA Match Championships. Maybe his most memorable second as a coach was main No. 15 seed Southern to a 93-78 win over No. 2 Georgia Tech within the first spherical of the 1993 NCAA Match. It stands as one of many nice upsets within the historical past of the occasion.
Coach Jobe handed away on March 10, 2017.
The recipient of the annual award is decided by a 10-member voting committee, which consists of present and former head coaches, in addition to two senior employees members of collegeinsider.com.
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