the field and 29.3% from three. The following year at Penn State he played with another player named David Jackson (also known as DJ Jackson), and he started 21 out of 30 games, averaging 6.6 points, 3.1 rebounds and 2.3 assists in 24.8 minutes per game. He posted career-highs in all shooting categories, recording percentages of 41.7% from the field, 37.1% from three and 83.6% from the free throw line. College statistics |- | align="left" | 2005–06 | align="left" | Penn State | 30 || 30 || 29.2 || .371 || .293 || .717 || 3.2 || 2.9 || 0.9 || 0.1 || 6.7 |- | align="left" | 2006–07 | align="left" | Penn State | 30 || 21 || 24.8 || .417 || .371 || .836 || 3.1 || 2.3 || 0.9 || 0.0 || 6.6 |- | align="left" | Career | align="left" | | 60 || 51 || 27.0 || .392 || .327 || .774 || 3.2 || 2.6 || 0.9 || 0.1 || 6.7 |- Professional career Beginnings and MVP in Argentina After the end of his college career, Jackson was automatically eligible for the NBA draft, but he went undrafted. He decided to join Defensor Sporting in Uruguay and he played in the LUB (21 points per game over 42 appearances and a career-high of 38 points in a game against Soriano) and in the 2007–08 FIBA Americas League, where in 6 games played he averaged 24.5 points, 3.2 rebounds and 3.7 assists, shooting 57.1% from the field, 45.2% from three and 82.4% from the free throw line. In March 2008 moved to Puerto Rico, where he played 11 games in the Baloncesto Superior Nacional with Grises de Humacao, averaging 8.1 points, 4.3 rebounds and 2.4 assists per game. In 2008 he joined Peñarol Mar del Plata, and he played 58 games averaging 18.4 points, 3.7 rebounds, 1.8 assists and 1.4 steals per game, shooting 55.4% from the field and 50.4% from three: he was named League MVP, the first foreigner to receive the award. He then transferred to La Unión in June 2009, and in his first season with the new team he led the league in scoring with 18.9 points per game, winning the Top Scorer title at the end of the season: he shot 57.7% from the field (43.8% from three) and 86.6% from the free throw line. He also played with La Unión