Randy Jackson was hired as the new assistant men's basketball coach at Knox College in 2020.
Jackson comes to Knox from Green Mountain College in Vermont where he assisted the Eagles to an overall mark of 18-10 and a Northeastern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (NIAC) Championship. The team ranked first in the nation in defensive points per game (62.0) and defensive field goal percentage (37.8%). He also coached the Association of Independent Institutions (A.I.I.) Defensive Player of the Year. During the 2017-18 season, the team led the North Athletic Conference (NAC) in rebounding, had 14 freshmen on the squad, and qualified for the conference tournament.
Prior to Green Mountain, Jackson spent eight seasons as the head coach at Sussex County Community College in New Jersey. He also assisted at Sussex County for a season prior to being named head coach.
Jackson has also been a head coach in the Crossroads Basketball AAU Program since 2010.
Before getting into coaching, Jackson worked as a marketing/sales Intern for the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees in 2009.
Jackson received his Bachelor of Science degree in sport management from Misericordia University in Dallas, Pennsylvania, in 2009.
