Per IU Media Relations:

Je’Ney Jackson has joined the strength and conditioning staff at Indiana University and will be working with the nationally prominent Hoosier men’s basketball program.  He brings eight years of experience as a strength coach (including a stint as the men’s basketball strength coach for IU assistant Steve McClain at Wyoming) on the Division I level and five years as a position coach, most notably at Kansas.

We are excited to add someone with Je’Ney’s talent toughness and personality, said IU Coach Tom Crean.  “He comes highly recommended not only from Steve McClain who he worked with for five years, but from other prominent coaches that I respect.”

Jackson has been at Southern Mississippi since February after spending five years with the Kansas football program, including the last three years as cornerbacks coach. Prior to that,  Jackson was an assistant strength and conditioning coach at KU for two seasons and six years as strength and conditioning coach at Wyoming.

“I am thrilled to be able to work with Tom Crean and to have this opportunity at Indiana,” said Jackson.  “This is a program with great tradition and the new facilities makes this one of the elite jobs in all of college athletics.  I am looking forward to getting to know the players and helping them reach their maximum potential.”

At Kansas, Jackson mentored Aqib Talib, who earned consensus All-America honors and was a first-round NFL draft pick by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and Chris Harris, who was tabbed a Freshman All-America Honorable Mention pick by The Sporting News.

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