Sean Jackson

College career Jackson played his freshman season for the 1987–88 Ohio Bobcats men's basketball team before sitting out a season and transferring to Princeton. The team was coming off of an Ivy League championship season that was highlighted by a 1989 NCAA tournament with the memorable 1989 Georgetown vs. Princeton game. At the time of that game, Jackson had been on campus as a student sitting out of athletic competition for a year due to the transfer rules at the time. He and George Leftwich gave Princeton one of the quickest backcourt combinations in recent school history. Jackson earned Ivy League Men's Basketball Player of the Week on January 7, 1990. giving him a share of the school single-game three-point shots made record until Matt Lapin made 8 against on February 24, 1990. He averaged 11.1 points per game that year. That year's Tigers included Ivy League Player of the Year Kit Mueller. The team won the Ivy League regular season and entered the 1990 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament with a 13-seed. They lost to 4-seed Arkansas 68–64. Jackson opened the game with a pair of three point shots as Princeton held early leads of 10–2 and 20–9. They still led 56–55 lead with 6:25 before surrendering the lead and the game.

Jackson's February 8, 1991, 5–5 three-point shot performance against stood as a shared school and shared Ivy League record for single-game three point shots without a miss until Sydney Johnson set the current school record (6) six seasons later. He earned Ivy League Men's Basketball Player of the Week on March 4, 1991. Following the season, he was named First Team All-Ivy League honoree for the 1990–91 team.

As a redshirt senior for the 1991–92 Tigers, Jackson served as co-captain with Matthew C. Eastwick, and George H. Leftwich. On January 4, 1992, after Princeton fell behind 46–36 with 7:34 time remaining against , Jackson helped Princeton close out the game on an 11-point run (including 2 Jackson three-point shots) to finish with 20 points and a perfect 4–4 three-point second half. He earned his final Ivy League Men's Basketball Player of the Week recognition on January 7, 1992. His 84 three-point shots made led the Ivy League. He was again named First Team All-Ivy League honoree and was named 1992 Ivy League Men's Basketball Player of the Year. The 1991–92 team earned a fourth consecutive Ivy League championship and went to the 1992 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament as a 11-seed against Syracuse. Jackson went into the tournament with the third best three point shooting percentage in the nation (48.1%). Jackson led the team in scoring with 13 points, but the team lost 51–43.

Jackson's single-season totals of 95 (1990–91) and 84 (1991–92) three-point shots made are first and second in the 2023 Princeton record book. His streak of 56 consecutive games with a made three-point shot still stands as a school record, according to the same source. When he established his three-point shot records, the three-point line was at , but for the 2008–09 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, the line was extended to . For the 2019–20 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, the line was further extended to .

Post-collegiate After graduating from Princeton in 1992, Jackson attended Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in the Chicago metropolitan area to attain a Master of Business Administration before moving to begin his career in Nashville. During his time in business school, he began playing in competitive 3x3 basketball with John W. Rogers Jr., Mueller and Craig Robinson. In a 2001 Best on the Street: 2001 Analysts Survey published in The Wall Street Journal, Jackson, who held the title of director of stock research at SunTrust Equitable Securities Corp., the investment-banking [sic] subsidiary of SunTrust Banks Inc. was ranked as "third in Internet stock-picking" among analysts on Wall Street.

Personal life As of 2010, Sean and Suzanne Jackson lived in Tennessee with their 9-year-old competitive youth golfing son named Zach and 7-year-old basketball-loving son named Luke.