Boeheim’s Army is shaping up wonderfully for this summer’s The Basketball Tournament (“TBT”), yet former Syracuse basketball player Rick Jackson is forgoing the Orange-based crew in favor of another squad.
Before any ‘Cuse fanatic out there cries foul, read on about what Jackson has elected to do. It’s classy, memorable and poignant, to say the least.
Jackson, a 6-foot-9 power forward, will suit up for Team Hank Gathers in honoring the legacy of Hank Gathers, a Philadelphia high-school legend and one of the premier college basketball players in the late 1980s, prior to his unbelievably tragic death at the age of 23 on March 4, 1990.