[1] After playing two seasons for the Tigers he transferred to Mississippi State University to finish his college career.

That same season he led Mississippi State to the NCAA Men's Basketball Final Four, picking up a Regional MVP honor along the way.

Jones, along with his 1995–96 Bulldog teammates, was inducted into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame in 2016.

He was selected out of Mississippi State University as the 21st pick by the New York Knicks in the 1996 NBA draft but was traded, along with Walter McCarty, John Thomas and Scott Brooks, to the Celtics in exchange for Chris Mills shortly before the 1997–98 NBA season began (he had previously taken part in no games in 1996–97 with the Knicks due to a foot injury).

After his NBA season, Jones played for the Memphis Houn'Dawgs in the American Basketball Association (ABA), and in Greece, Turkey, Italy, Korea and China.