Ben Jacobson

Player information
Ben Jacobson
birthday	16th September 1983 (age 36)
place of birth	Sioux City (IA), USA
size	190 cm
position	Point guard
college	Northern Iowa
Clubs as active
2002–2006 UNI Panthers ( NCAA ) 2007 Erdgas Ehingen / Urspringschule 2007 Étendard de Brest 2007–2008 Central German BC 2008–2010 BG Göttingen 2010 Ikaros Esperos 2011 Boulazac BD 2011–2014 see Oliver BasketsUnited States 0000–Germany 0000–France Germany Germany -0000 Greece 0000–France Germany

Ben Jacobson (born September 16, 1983 in Sioux City , Iowa ) is an American basketball player who was particularly active as a professional in the German basketball league . His greatest success so far was winning the EuroChallenge 2010 with the BG Göttingen . Jacobson returned to the BBL after a year and played for s.Oliver Baskets from Würzburg for three years until 2014 .

Career

During his studies, Jacobson played for the college team Panthers of the University of Northern Iowa . Between 2004 and 2006, the Panthers were able to qualify for the NCAA Division I Basketball Championship tournament three times in a row and for the first time since 1990 , where they were eliminated in the first round. Jacobson was one of the top performers of his team and marked a total of 1787 points in the four seasons and is thus in third place of the best basket hunters of all times of the Panthers, where he was able to achieve the most successful 3-point throws. In his senior year, he was named the MVP of the Missouri Valley Conference . He is not to be confused with his namesake (* 1970), who was assistant coach of the Panthers at the time and head coach of this college team since 2007.

After finishing his studies, Jacobson made hopes for a professional career in the NBA , which was broken down by intervertebral disc problems , among other things . After an operation in 2006, he moved to Europe and from January 2007 played in Ehingen in the German 2nd basketball league . After the end of the season in Germany he was briefly active in the second French league LNB Pro B in Brest . For the 2007/08 season Jacobson was hoping for a contract in a first European league, but finally had to make do with a commitment from December 2007 in the newly founded Pro A , which replaced the 2nd BBL from 2007. At MBC in Weißenfels he was only active for four weeks before he got a contract with the then promoted BG Göttingen in the first basketball league in February 2008 . From the beginning of the following season 2008/09 he also played at the BG with his long-time college teammate John Little . The greatest success in 2010 was winning the EuroChallenge, which was won at the Final Four tournament in Göttingen . While Little then extended his contract, Jacobson moved to Greek first division promoted Irakos Esperos in Kallithea near Athens . At the turn of the year Jacobson returned to France in the LNB Pro B and was active for Basket Dordogne from Boulazac . His former Göttingen trainer John Patrick switched to the newcomer s.Oliver Baskets for the 2011/12 season and signed John Little and Jacobson, so that both played together again. After the play-off qualification in the promotion year, in which they reached the semi-finals for the German championship, they just missed qualifying for the play-offs without coach Patrick in the following season 2012/13 in ninth place. In the 2013/14 season, after point deductions due to license violations, they even missed relegation, whereupon Jacobson's contract was not extended.

Web links

easyCredit BBL - Ben Jacobson - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga website
Ben Jacobson Stats - Northern Iowa Panthers - Jacobson's college playtime stats at statsheet.com

Individual evidence

↑ UNI Panther Men's Basketball Media Guide 2009-10 - History. (PDF (2.4 MB)) CSTV.com, p. 88ff. , accessed on August 26, 2010 .
^ NN: Erdgas Ehingen / Original school: Ben Jacobson is coming. ( Memento of December 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Archived from Die Junge Liga — Website; Cologne, January 17, 2007. Retrieved February 6, 2019.
^ NN: Central German BC: Chemnitz made strong. Ben Jacobson. ( Memento from December 25, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Archived from Die Junge Liga — Website; Cologne, December 2, 2012. Accessed February 6, 2019.

personal data
SURNAME	Jacobson, Ben
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH	September 16, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sioux City , Iowa, USA

[1] UNI Panther Men's Basketball Media Guide 2009-10 - History. (PDF (2.4 MB)) CSTV.com, p. 88ff. , accessed on August 26, 2010 .

[2] NN: Erdgas Ehingen / Original school: Ben Jacobson is coming. ( Memento of December 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Archived from Die Junge Liga — Website; Cologne, January 17, 2007. Retrieved February 6, 2019.

[3] NN: Central German BC: Chemnitz made strong. Ben Jacobson. ( Memento from December 25, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Archived from Die Junge Liga — Website; Cologne, December 2, 2012. Accessed February 6, 2019.