Last Week’s Stats: 19.0 ppg, 11.0 rpg, 3.0 apg, 76.2 FG%, 1.000 FT%
The league’s top rebounder brought his scoring to another level this past week to help lead his squad to a pair of home wins over Stonehill on Thursday and Mercyhurst on Saturday. Turning in a sizzling 76.2 percent clip from the field after draining 16-of-21 shots, Jackson was the lone NEC player to average a double-double last week after he turned the trick in each of the Knights’ victories. The senior forward got his week off to a solid start against the Skyhawks. Pulling down 12 rebounds, Jackson went 10-of-14 from the floor to rack up a career-high 22 points. That victory avenged a hard-fought defeat that FDU suffered in Easton the week before. Two days later against the Lakers, the Denver, CO native and Northern Colorado transfer led his team in scoring for the second-straight outing, netting 16 points while adding 10 rebounds to push his team-leading double-double total to six, the second-most in the circuit. Jackson’s offensive contributions have been on the up-and-up as of late. Netting 10.6 points per game over the first seven games of the NEC slate, he has since netted 16.4 points per contest in his past five outings. On the season, he is nearly averaging a double-double with 10.3 points and 8.5 rebounds per game. This is the first Influxer/NEC Player of the Week award for an FDU player this season.