MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – Head Men's Basketball Coach Nick McDevitt is off to a strong start in his first complete recruiting cycle at Middle Tennessee as the program signed Tyson Jackson, Eli Lawrence and Jo'Vontae Millner to national letters of intent on Thursday.
Jackson, a product of Fairburn, Georgia's Creekside High School, will join the Blue Raiders after spending the 2018-19 season at Hargrave Military Academy. While at Creekside he was named First Team All-State as a senior and was a two-time First Team All-Region selection.
The 6-foot-9, 220-pound post totaled 1,499 points and 998 rebounds during his final two seasons at Creekside, averaging just shy of 30 points and more than 13 rebounds per game as a senior, and will fill an immediate need for the Blue Raiders with the impending graduation of senior forwards Karl Gamble and James Hawthorne.