Askia Jones facts for kids

Askia Rahman Jones (born December 3, 1971) is an American-Venezuelan retired professional basketball player, a 6'5" (1.96 m) shooting guard.

Basketball career

A Kansas State University graduate born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Jones left college as the third-leading scorer in its history. He finished his four-year college career averaging 14.8 points a game.

His scoring prowess was demonstrated on March 24, 1994, when he scored sixty-two points in only twenty-eight minutes against Fresno State in the 1994 NIT quarterfinals, the second-highest postseason scoring total in college basketball history. The fourteen three-point field goals scored by Jones in that game are a postseason record. He was also the first to make 14 against a NCAA Division I opponent.

He is also the last Division I men's player to date to have a sixty-point regulation game; the only other players since then to score sixty points, Eddie House in 2000 and Ben Woodside in 2008, respectively required two and three overtimes.

The son of former National Basketball Association player Wali Jones, Jones, after brief spell with the Minnesota Timberwolves in 1994–95, took his game to Venezuela, Brazil, Indonesia, the Philippines, Portugal, Cyprus and Spain, in a professional career spanning almost two decades.

He eventually received Venezuelan citizenship and played with Venezuela national basketball team in the 2005 FIBA Americas Championship, winning the bronze medal.

See also

In Spanish: Askia Jones para niños

• List of NCAA Division I men's basketball players with 12 or more 3-point field goals in a game
• List of NCAA Division I men's basketball players with 60 or more points in a game