{"id":282759,"date":"2025-10-06T23:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T23:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/282759\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T23:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T23:44:10","slug":"kansas-basketball-2025-26-player-profile-elmarko-jackson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/282759\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas Basketball 2025-26 Player Profile: Elmarko Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5j\">With the start of the 2025-26 men\u2019s basketball season being less than a month away, it\u2019s time to start diving deeper into this year\u2019s roster. We\u2019ll go through every scholarship player on the KU roster (whether they\u2019re returning or new) and introduce them to Jayhawk nation. To kick off the player profile series, we begin with incoming redshirt sophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elmarko_Jackson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elmarko Jackson.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5m\">Jackson is entering his third season at Kansas, but it will be just his second seeing action on the court, as he missed all of last year due to a torn patellar tendon in his left knee. During his freshman campaign in 2023-24, Elmarko averaged 4.3 points, 1.7 assists, 1.4 rebounds, and 0.8 steals per game. His season eventually ended when KU was eliminated by Gonzaga in the second round of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2024_NCAA_Division_I_men%27s_basketball_tournament\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2024 NCAA tournament.<\/a> He hasn\u2019t officially seen the floor in a game since.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5p\">Jackson arrived at Kansas as a highly touted <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/McDonald%27s_All-American_Game\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">McDonald\u2019s All-American<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_Self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Self<\/a> and the Jayhawks. Although his first couple seasons haven\u2019t gone as he might have expected, he\u2019s put in a tremendous amount of work and is ready to be a major part of the backcourt this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5s\">During a press conference in July, Bill Self was asked about Elmarko Jackson\u2019s progress after completing rehab for the injury he suffered last summer. Self said, \u201cAthletically, he\u2019s where he was before he got hurt\u2026 When he\u2019s able to play instead of think you\u2019ll see him being as explosive as he was when he first got here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5v\">Those are encouraging words from the Hall of Fame coach. By the time the season begins, Jackson will have had four additional months to recover and train since Bill Self spoke about him in July.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5y\">Jackson was once projected by many to be a first-round NBA Draft pick, so we know his potential is sky-high. Many college basketball fans outside of Kansas may have forgotten about the young guard from New Jersey, but don\u2019t be surprised if he becomes a major contributor to this season\u2019s Jayhawk squad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the start of the 2025-26 men\u2019s basketball season being less than a month away, it\u2019s time to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":282760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1339,1317,1337,1338,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-282759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-basketball","11":"tag-ncaabasketball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115329883493100658","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}