Jackson
continued from page 7 A
I.Q.,” says fellow freshman starter
Luke Ridnour.
Jackson’s smarts, along with a
heaping tablespoon of hustle,
earned him the starting role and
Kent’s respect two weeks ago.
“He has come a long way since
the start of the season,” Kent said
after he started Jackson for the first
time against Washington State.
“He’s a much better player, a much
more composed player, and a
much more confident player.”
But after two solid performances
as a starter, Jackson suffered a blow
to his growing confidence last Sat
urday against UCLA. The fresh
man came off the bench and
played 22 minutes, but only scored
three points. With 10 minutes left
in the contest, Jackson hacked a
UCLA player on the arm for his
fifth foul and watched from the
bench as the Ducks’ lead slowly
turned into a 10-point deficit and
eventually a loss.
“My heart was in it, and I really
felt like we were going to win that
game,” Jackson said. “To watch the
lead slide there at the end ... that
was tough.”
Jackson is used to staying on the
court. Before coming to Oregon, he
was the star of Creswell High’s bas
ketball and baseball teams, and
some of his statistics from
I’ve been a part of a
lot of great games here,
now getting the chance
to play in those big games
is really exciting
LukeJackson
Freshman forward
Creswell are simply pop-your
eyes-out-of-their-sockets amazing.
The forward once scored 46
points in a game. He led Creswell
to the Oregon state championship
last year, and notched 13 boards
and 13 assists in the title game. He
is the fourth-best scorer in Oregon
prep history, with 2,095 total
points. Oh, and he struck out 16
batters in a baseball game. He was
primarily a center fielder.
With all that attention focused
on him for four years, Jackson
must have had a tough time adjust
ing to the fact that at Oregon there
weFe other players — even other
classmates — getting more atten
tion than himself.
Nope.
“We’re building for a team that
can be really, really good,” Jackson
insists. “I’m excited for that.”
Another one of those building
blocks — and one of the players
stealing Jackson’s glory — is top re
cruit Ridnour, who handles the
ball almost as well as he handles
his team.
“We play pretty good together,”
Ridnour says of his classmate.
“He’s easy to play with because I
already know he's looking, making
his cuts.”
Ridnour and Jackson met for the
first time this summer, when they
played for a high school all-star
team at the Global Games in Dal
las, Texas.
“It helped me a lot just to play
with him, to get a feel for how he
plays in games,” Ridnour said.
Luke Jackson (33)
Height: 67”
Year: Freshman
Position: Forward
Hometown: Creswel I, Ore. (Creswell HS)
Season Statistics: 7.2 ppg, 3.8 rpg, 1.5 apg, 1.0 spg,
.443 fg pet., 15.4 mpg
Accomplishments: Oregon AAA Player of the Year in
1998 and 2000. led Creswell to State AAA Championship
in 2000. Three time Sky-Em league player of the year.
“We played really well down there
together. I knew from that tourna
ment this was going to be fun.”
The two Lukes have come al
most full circle since that tourna
ment. The difference is that now,
they’re playing on a Pac-10 team,
not a high school all-star team.
Another difference is that now
they’re playing in Oregon, not
Texas, and both are happier in this
state than anywhere else.
Jackson used to be one of those
kids you see at Duck games, laugh
ing and playing as a toddler, then
having feigning interest as a mid
dle-schooler and then cheering on
the Ducks as a high-schooler.
“I’ve been a part of a lot of great
games here, now getting the
chance to play in those big games
is really exciting,” Jackson said.
Jackson could have gone else
where. Arizona wanted him. So
did Gonzaga and Utah. But his ties
to his hometown kept him in Eu
gene.
Kent and the Ducks are ecstatic
Jackson picked Oregon because of
his play on the basketball court
and his confidence off of it.
Maybe the rest of the Ducks will
start to believe in Jackson’s ideas.
He is just a freshman, after all.
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