Jason Rowe (basketball)

After his senior year at Loyola he went undrafted in the 2000 NBA draft and moved to Cyprus, where he made his professional debut with APOEL.

In his 15-year career he has played in Argentina, Cyprus, France, Greece, Israel, Morocco, Poland, Spain, Turkey and Ukraine; in 2006 he was the top scorer of the LNB Pro A, the top level of French basketball, and was named the league's Foreign MVP the same year.

[1][2] Playing under coach Joe Cardinal,[1] Rowe averaged 23 points, 6 rebounds and 12 assists per game in his sophomore season.

[9] In his senior year at Traditional, Rowe won the 1996 Class C state title[10][11] and was an all-state first team selection.

[3][10] He finished his career at Buffalo Traditional with a school record 2,286 points[11][14] (some other sources state 2,327),[4][15] 1,098 assists and more than 500 rebounds and 500 steals.

[18][19] Rowe drew marginal interest by big Division I programs,[20] and received generic letters by Duke and Michigan.

[3][21] Rowe averaged 13.7 points, 3.2 rebounds and 4.1 assists, was the best assistman on the team, and he was the third best scorer behind junior guard Mike Powell and senior forward Anthony Smith.

[24] On January 25, 1998, Rowe converted 7 three-pointers, which at the time was tied for the highest in a single game in Loyola history.

[25] Rowe improved his scoring average to 18.1 points per game,[26] which ranked second on the team and on the entire MAAC conference, behind teammate Mike Powell.

[29] In his junior season, Rowe was considered one of the best players of the MAAC,[20] and led his team in points, assists and steals per game,[30][31] recording 161 total assists (among the best result in Loyola history)[28] and established Loyola's all-time high for steals in a single season with 95.

In 2001 he joined Elitzur Ashkelon of the Israeli Basketball Premier League, where he averaged 18.7 points, 2.9 rebounds and 3 assists over 18 games.

For the 2001–02 season he played for ALM Évreux in the LNB Pro B, the second level of French basketball, and averaged 21 points, 4.3 rebounds and 8.3 assists, shooting 55.2% from the field (42.9% on three-pointers).

In 2005–06 Rowe had his best season in Pro A: he scored 21 points per game, and added 3.5 rebounds and 6.6 assists, shooting 37.2% from behind the arc and 80.8% on free throws.

After his season in Livorno Rowe went back to France, and signed for JDA Dijon, where he was preferred to Lee Humphrey.

[40] In February 2012 he signed for BC Odesa of the Ukrainian Basketball SuperLeague, and played 12 games with the team during the 2011–12 season (12.4 points, 5.1 assists).

[41] After a brief stint at AS Salé of Morocco, Rowe retired after the 2014–15 season, spent in the Nationale Masculine 1 (third level of French basketball) with UB Chartres Métropole.