'07 OH PG/SG Dante Jackson (Xavier Verbal)

[Oh8ch]

The order in which offers are handed out to the kids in the 2007 class should be interesting.

The other thing that gets interesting - and something we have dealt with only sporadically in the past - is early departures (just ask UNC). If 1) the age rule does not go into effect (and to a lesser extent even if it does), 2) we get the Thad Five (or even Four), and 3) they all actually attend college it will very tough to predict how many schollies we have to offer in any given year. It will be nice to have guys like Jackson who might hang around to see if ships open up at the last minute.

My head is still spinning trying to figure out how to think about basketball recruiting in the Matta era. This is so dramatically different from the days of hoping Obie might hang in there with even one blue chipper. Heck, I didn't even follow BBall recruiting closely because it got to depressing.

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

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5/25/05

Jackson is considered a top 100 player nationally in his class. Last year he put up 11.7 rebounds, 6.5 assists and 3.2 steals per game while shooting 57 percent from the floor. Ohio State is his leader and he is also interested in Kentucky, Michigan, N.C. State, Xavier and Dayton. Xavier has offered at this point. He pretty much stated that if OSU offered he would accept on the spot, especially if Matta is able to land Oden and Conley.

[HabaneroBuck]

Dante Jackson will be competing for the state championship in the Division II track finals this weekend. He won his regional in the 110 M High hurdles and the 300 M hurdles.

Event 4 Boys 110 Meter Hurdles
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Stadium: # 14.30 5/14/1996 Rusty Fry, River
Regional: $ 14.05 5/1999 Julius Wallace, Martins Ferry
Name Year School Finals Points
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Finals
1 225 Jackson, Dante 10 Greenfield 14.50 10


Event 16 Boys 300 Meter Hurdles
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Stadium: # 37.90 5/25/2005 Dante Jackson, Greenfield
Regional: $ 37.87 5/1991 Maurice Jordan, Martins Ferry
Name Year School Finals Points
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Finals
1 225 Jackson, Dante 10 Greenfield 37.90# 10

Setting the stadium record and coming within 3/100ths of a second of the regional record in the 300 is pretty impressive for any basketball player running track, but especially as a sophomore. For comparison, Brian Hartline won his regional with times of 14.07 in the 110 and 36.97 in the 300. Hartline pretty much smoked everyone else in his regional, though....

[HabaneroBuck]

Dante representin'

Originally Posted by OHSAA

Event 4 Boys 110 Meter Hurdles 39"
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State Meet: % 13.71 1996 Lamar Hill(Dayton Christian)
Name Year School Finals Wind Points
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Finals
1 Greg Keys 12 Bellevue 14.34 0.5 10
2 Steve Love 12 Alliance 14.45 0.5 8
3 Jared Martin 12 Clyde 14.59 0.5 6
4 Dante Jackson 10 Greenfield 14.61 0.5 5

Event 16 Boys 300 Meter Hurdles 36"
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State Meet: % 36.83 2003 Austin Wechter(Shelby)
Name Year School Finals Points
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Finals
1 Jared Martin 12 Clyde 37.53 10
2 Jeff Hileman 12 Versailles 38.42 8
3 Dante Jackson 10 Greenfield 38.57 6

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Jackson is definetly an athlete with those numbers...

[wadc45]

After seeing those numbers, I hope more than ever that we eventually offer Dante...

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

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6/22/05

At the Ohio State basketball team camp this past week....Greenfield (Ohio) McClain and Jackson participated and Dante came away impressed with the staff and Coach Matta.