Jack Jennings (basketball, born 1969)
Jack Jennings (born October 15, 1969, in Covington, Kentucky)[1] is an American-Israeli[2] former basketball player. Standing at 6 ft 5 (1.96 m), he played as forward.
High school and college career
[edit]Jennings played for Holmes High School of Kentucky and graduated in 1988. He averaged 34.4 points in his senior season and scored 41 points in a state tournament game. Jennings was inducted to the Greater Cincinnati Basketball Hall of Fame in 2019.[3]
He went on to play collegiate basketball with Western Kentucky from 1990 to 1992.[4] There, Jennings averaged 17.6 points and 7.6 rebounds over his two seasons as a started for WKU.[3]
Professional career
[edit]In the 1992–93 season, Jennings played in the Dutch Eredivisie with Donar (named VGNN Donar for sponsorship reasons).[5] He won the Most Valuable Player award of the Eredivisie season. He averaged 26.7 points in his sole season with Donar.[6]
Jennings also played in Turkey, Israel and Argentina later in his career.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ "Jennings, Jack – 623676 | WKU Athletics". Retrieved June 30, 2022.
- ^ Proballers. "Jack Jennings's Basketball Records (Regular season)". Proballers. Retrieved June 30, 2022.
- ^ a b "Local high school players among latest inductees into Greater Cincinnati Basketball Hall of Fame | NKyTribune". Retrieved June 30, 2022.
- ^ "Jack Jennings College Stats". College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved June 30, 2022.
- ^ DonarMuseum. "Jack Jennings - DonarMuseum.nl". www.donarmuseum.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved June 30, 2022.
- ^ "Jack Jennings Basketbal statistieken Spelers Dossier - NBB Database, basketball statistieken". db.basketball.nl. Retrieved June 30, 2022.
- ^ Eurobasket. "Jack Jennings Player Profile, Bahia Basket, News, Stats - Latinbasket". Eurobasket LLC. Retrieved June 30, 2022.