Bello and Jackson Named #HLMBB Academic All-League
2/25/2025 4:00:00 PM | Men's Basketball
INDIANAPOLIS – Purdue Fort Wayne men's basketball student-athletes Jalen Jackson and Rasheed Bello were named to the Horizon League's 2025 All-Academic Team, the league announced on Wednesday (Feb. 26).
In the classroom, Jackson owns a 3.59 GPA. He leads the Horizon League in scoring with 19.2 points per game. He is fifth in field goal percentage (49.2 percent), fifth in steals (1.7 per game) and ninth in assists (3.2 per game). Jackson scored a league-high 38 points at IU Indianapolis this season. He has scored 558 total points, 13th in the nation, going over 1,000 points as a Mastodon in less than two full seasons. Jackson is 80th in the nation in total steals (49). He owns a pair of Horizon League Player of the Week honors this year. The junior from Fort Wayne was named Mid-Season Lou Henson Player of the Year by CollegeInsider.com as the best mid-major player in the nation.
Bello, a senior from Chicago, Illinois, has a 3.53 GPA, leads the league and ranks 24th in the nation in free throw percentage at 89.0 percent. He is second in the league in steals (1.8 per game), fourth in assists per game (4.3 per game), fifth in scoring at 16.0 points per game average and eighth for field goal percentage (45.2 percent). Bello earned the Horizon League Player of the Week award twice this season. He had a season-high 31 points vs. Bethune-Cookman and 12 assists at Green Bay. Bello, like Jackson, owns better than 1,000 points as a Mastodon in less than two full seasons in Fort Wayne.
To be eligible for Horizon League All-Academic consideration, a student-athlete must have a cumulative grade-point-average of 3.20 or higher (based on a 4.00 scale), have completed at least one year at the member institution, having earned 24 semester-hour or 36 quarter-hour credits, and participate in 50 percent of the team's overall contests. An Honorable Mention is awarded to student-athletes who received at least 25 percent of votes, but did not make the All-Academic team.
The Mastodons will go for their 20th win of the season on Thursday (Feb 27) against Northern Kentucky.
In the classroom, Jackson owns a 3.59 GPA. He leads the Horizon League in scoring with 19.2 points per game. He is fifth in field goal percentage (49.2 percent), fifth in steals (1.7 per game) and ninth in assists (3.2 per game). Jackson scored a league-high 38 points at IU Indianapolis this season. He has scored 558 total points, 13th in the nation, going over 1,000 points as a Mastodon in less than two full seasons. Jackson is 80th in the nation in total steals (49). He owns a pair of Horizon League Player of the Week honors this year. The junior from Fort Wayne was named Mid-Season Lou Henson Player of the Year by CollegeInsider.com as the best mid-major player in the nation.
Bello, a senior from Chicago, Illinois, has a 3.53 GPA, leads the league and ranks 24th in the nation in free throw percentage at 89.0 percent. He is second in the league in steals (1.8 per game), fourth in assists per game (4.3 per game), fifth in scoring at 16.0 points per game average and eighth for field goal percentage (45.2 percent). Bello earned the Horizon League Player of the Week award twice this season. He had a season-high 31 points vs. Bethune-Cookman and 12 assists at Green Bay. Bello, like Jackson, owns better than 1,000 points as a Mastodon in less than two full seasons in Fort Wayne.
To be eligible for Horizon League All-Academic consideration, a student-athlete must have a cumulative grade-point-average of 3.20 or higher (based on a 4.00 scale), have completed at least one year at the member institution, having earned 24 semester-hour or 36 quarter-hour credits, and participate in 50 percent of the team's overall contests. An Honorable Mention is awarded to student-athletes who received at least 25 percent of votes, but did not make the All-Academic team.
The Mastodons will go for their 20th win of the season on Thursday (Feb 27) against Northern Kentucky.
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