Duke's Ashlon Jackson calm in the clutch as team prepares for Elite Eight
Ashlon Jackson has hit game-winner before. During her senior year in high school, she sank a shot that propelled her team to the state title game.
SACRAMENTO, CA – Ashlon Jackson is no stranger to clutch moments. The buzzer-beating 3-pointer that propelled the No. 3 seeded Duke Blue Devils past No.
2 LSU and into the Elite Eight etched her name into March Madness history. However, it wasn’t the first time Jackson delivered a victory in crunch time. During her senior year at Hardin-Jefferson High School in Texas, she sank a shot that propelled her team to the state championship game.
“I ended up getting this rebound and got an and-one, and, like, the whole gym exploded,” Jackson said. “It put us up five, I think. It was the fourth quarter.
It was the best feeling ever. I could recall everything that happened. ” Well, maybe now it’s the second-best feeling ever.