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WATCH: UNC Basketball Signee Ian Jackson Catches Fire in 'Flu Game'
Our Saviour Lutheran School (N.Y.) senior guard and 2024 UNC basketball prize Ian Jackson competes for Jelly Fam (7-5) in Overtime Elite league action. In the squad's latest outing over the weekend, a 101-78 win over Rolling Loud (3-7) in Atlanta's OTE Arena, the future Tar Heel shined to the tune of a game-high 33 points.
And Jackson did so while battling the flu, thereby applying the "flu game" label to his prolific performance.
The 6-foot-5, 185-pound five-star, a newly minted McDonald's All-American Game selection, played a team-high 30 minutes, adding three rebounds, two assists, and one steal to his box score. He shot a sizzling 13-for-16 from the field, 5-for-7 from downtown, and 2-for-2 at the charity stripe.
Jelly Fam held only a 58-56 lead against Rolling Loud heading into the fourth quarter. Illness and all, though, Jackson somehow had enough left in his tank to power the team to a 43-22 advantage from there on out, as 12 points of his points came in the fourth quarter alone.
Here are the explosive bucket-getter's impressive full-game highlights, courtesy of the Overtime Elite account:
Ian Jackson, now No. 9 overall on the 247Sports 2024 Composite, will arrive in Chapel Hill this summer alongside two fellow UNC basketball signees in Link Academy (Mo.) four-star center James Brown (No. 69) and Northwood (N.C.) five-star forward Drake Powell (No. 10), the other McDonald's All-American in the Tar Heels' heralded class.
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