In scoring a career-high 26 points last night at East Carolina, junior guard Joe Jackson became the 48th player in U of M history to reach 1,000 points for his career. Jackson is the 24th native Memphian to join this club, but the first since Jeremy Hunt scored his 1,000th point during the 2006-07 season. The six years are actually the longest drought between Memphians reaching this exclusive U of M fraternity of basketball stars.
- Larry Kuzniewski
- Joe Jackson
Here’s a chronological list of native Memphians with 1,000 points for the Tigers. (For the purposes of this list, we’ll consider the Mississippi River the border it happens to be. So Keith Lee — now a Memphian for life — is technically from West Memphis, Arkansas.)
• John Hillman (1962-65) — 1,009
• Mike Butler (1965-68) — 1,409
• Larry Finch (1970-73) — 1,869
• Ronnie Robinson (1970-73) — 1,150
• Bill Cook (1972-76) — 1,629
• Alvin Wright (1974-78) — 1,319
• James Bradley (1976-79) — 1,254
• Doom Haynes (1980-84) — 1,479
• Andre Turner (1982-86) — 1,442
• Baskerville Holmes (1982-86) — 1,112
• William Bedford (1983-86) — 1,224
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- Ronnie Robinson
• Vincent Askew (1984-87) — 1,171
• Dwight Boyd (1984-88) — 1,249
• Cheyenne Gibson (1987-90) — 1,035
• Elliot Perry (1987-91) — 2,209 (tops on this list)
• Ernest Smith (1988-92) — 1,122
• Billy Smith (1990-93) — 1,040
• Penny Hardaway (1991-93) — 1,319
• Cedric Henderson (1993-97) — 1,697
• Lorenzen Wright (1994-96) — 1,026
• Marcus Moody (1997-2001) — 1,208
• Antonio Burks (2001-04) — 1,028
• Jeremy Hunt (2002-07) — 1,145
Barring injury or leaving school early, two of Jackson’s teammates from Memphis (both juniors) should join this list. Through Wednesday’s game, Tarik Black has 846 career points and Chris Crawford has 694.
