When the NCAA Tournament pairings are revealed Sunday, Justin Jackson will be paying particularly close attention. North Carolina is his school, Chapel Hill is his town. And those were his Tar Heels who sent him off to the NBA draft last summer with the feel of the 2017 national championship trophy stuck to his hands.
“The best feeling you can imagine,” the Kings rookie said. “The journey we had from the year before (losing to Villanova at the buzzer), to make it back and then win, is indescribable.”
While college isn’t for everyone – check with those one-and-done prospects, folks – you get no complaints from Jackson.