CHICAGO (July 26, 2018) – Aundre Jackson (Kennedale, Texas/Kennedale/McLennan CC), who helped lead the Loyola University Chicago men's basketball team to the NCAA Final Four in March, has signed a professional contract with Skallagrimur in Borgarnes, Iceland. The 6-foot-5 forward is the second player from the Ramblers' 2017-18 squad to sign a pro contract to play overseas, joining fellow Loyola graduate Ben Richardson, who will play for MKS Dabrowa Gornicza in Poland.
 
Last season, Skallagrimur posted a 21-3 record and won the Icelandic D1 regular-season championship. Skallagrimur, which competes in the Iceland Dominos League, opens the 2018-19 season on October 4 versus KR Reykjavik.
 
In only two seasons at Loyola, Jackson made his mark, graduating as the program's career leader in field goal percentage (.620). The 2016-17 Missouri Valley Conference Sixth Man of the Year, Jackson established a Loyola single-season record that year by connecting on a staggering 66.9 percent of his field goal attempts. 
 
As a senior in 2017-18, he played a critical role on a Rambler squad that notched a program-record 32 wins and reached the NCAA tournament for the first time since 1985 before taking the college basketball world by storm and rolling to the Final Four for the first time in 55 years. For the year, Jackson averaged 11.0 points and 3.2 rebounds per outing, hitting 57.6 percent of his field goal attempts. He scored in double figures on 21 occasions and scored a career-best 25 points versus UNC Wilmington and spearheaded a victory at No. 5 Florida by tossing in a game-high 23 points. In the NCAA tournament, he scored a team-high 16 points in a victory over No. 3 seed Tennessee and his three-pointer with just over two minutes remaining gave the Ramblers the lead for good in a Sweet 16 victory over Nevada.
 
Jackson also was named to the MVC All-Newcomer Team and MVC All-Bench Team as a junior in 2016-17 and his .669 field goal percentage that year ranks as the second-best mark in Valley annals.