Terrance Jacobs
American basketball player (born 1969)
Terrance Jacobs (born March 18, 1969) is an American former professional basketball player whose career took him to leagues in Hong Kong, Austria, Germany, Honduras, as well as domestic leagues in the United States. He played point guard and shooting guard. While in college, Jacobs was the 1992 East Coast Conference Player of the Year as a senior at Towson.
Playing career
High school and college
Jacobs grew up in Baltimore, Maryland. He attended Southern High School, where in 1987–88 he was named to the All-Metro Area First Team. He chose to play college basketball at Old Dominion University, where as a freshman in 1988–89 he appeared in 27 games for the Monarchs, starting four of them, and averaged 3.3 points per game. Jacobs decided that Old Dominion was not the right fit, so he transferred to Allegany Community College for his sophomore year, opting instead to play junior college basketball while deciding on his next university.
Jacobs chose to finish his college career at Towson University in his home state of Maryland, partly due to the team's success in 1989–90 as having been conference champions who earned a berth into the 1990 NCAA tournament. In his first season with the Tigers, his junior year, he averaged 15.9 points, 5.3 rebounds, 2.3 assists, and 2.1 steals per game. The Tigers won the East Coast Conference regular season title, the ECC tournament championship, and received the automatic berth into the 1991 NCAA tournament, where they lost to Ohio State in the opening round.
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