It hasn't been the best days of late for one South Bend-area high school
Jaden Ivey and Demetrius Jackson were seemingly on the right track to do right after their basketball days at Marian High School were done.
SOUTH BEND − For the third time in five days, and twice only hours apart, your thoughts rolled back to that magical basketball night at Marian High School. That Friday night in February 2025 with a sellout crowd in the bleachers, parking in the cramped lots at a premium and the school’s biggest rival, South Bend Saint Joseph, on the other bench. That Friday night that allowed Marian to puff its basketball chest over three former Knights who seemingly got it right.
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Who had made it. That night when former swingman Jaden Ivey stood at halfcourt with his former No. 13 Marian jersey encased in glass.
That night when former point guard Demetrius Jackson stood at halfcourt with his former No. 11 Marian jersey encased in class. Their jerseys, their names, would forever hang on the gym’s south wall.
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