Basketball
Master of Chaos: How UTSA G Jhivvan Jackson became the top bucket-getter in Texas
UTSA guard Jhivvan Jackson has become one of the top scorers in college basketball despite getting overlooked out of Trinity Euless. Here’s how the Roadrunners star found his perfect fit in San Antonio.
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To find the last player in UTSA history that put up buckets like Jhivvan Jackson, you have to go all the way back to the 1980s and the first family of San Antonio basketball.
Derrick Gervin, brother of “The Iceman” George Gervin, dominated the Roadrunners 1985 schedule to the tune of 25.6 points per game. But 35 years after the lanky 6-foot-8 wing patrolled the city, a 6-foot, 170-pound Puerto Rican sharpshooter is on track to rewrite the Roadrunners record books.
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