While playing college basketball at UTEP between 2005 and 2009, Jackson scored a Conference USA-record 2,456 points (since broken by Marshall's Jon Elmore).
[2] He played at Martin Luther King High School for two years and was a first team all-Philadelphia Public League selection in 2002–03.
[3] His final two years he played at Lutheran Christian Academy, and as a senior in 2004–05 he helped lead the team to a 35–3 record and a #5 national ranking.
[3] In college, he played for the University of Texas at El Paso Miners and became the most prolific scorer in Conference USA history (later broken in 2019).
Jackson was twice named to the All-Conference USA First Team and garnered some national All-America recognition his senior year.