Dannton Jackson joins the University at Albany men’s basketball program as an assistant coach under newly hired head coach, Dwayne Killings, in spring of 2021. Jackson enters his first season with UAlbany after he previously spent four years at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
As an assistant coach at UAB, Jackson guided the program to an NCAA 25th ranked defense with 4.9 blocks per game during the 2016-17 season. He also coached junior forward William Lee to consecutive Conference USA Defensive Player of the Year honors. In his four-year tenure as an assistant at UAB, the team went 76-57 from 2016-20.
Before his time at UAB, Jackson spent 13 seasons as the head coach at Xavier University of Louisiana New Orleans and accumulated a 294-130 career record. The Gold Rush won five regular-season championships and he guided the team to six-straight NAIA Division I National Championship appearances.
Before his time as head coach began in 2002, he served as an assistant before a promotion to associate head coach in the 2001-02 season. While at Xavier, he also served as an assistant coach on the women’s basketball team from 1993-97, head coach of the men’s and women’s cross country teams from 1994-96 and interim athletic director in 2004 and 2013-14.
Jackson is a native of Los Angeles and graduated from Xavier in 1992 with a bachelor’s degree in political science and added his master’s degree in educational administration in 1996. He was also a basketball letterman during his time as a student at Xavier.
