Moon Township, Pa. – Former
Robert Morris University men's basketball student-athlete
Lucky Jones (2011-15) has signed a contract with
PAOK Thessaloniki of the Greek Basketball League and the Greek Basketball Cup Champions League.
The 2017-18 campaign will mark the third season professionally for Jones. Last season, Jones split time between Hyéres-Toulon Var Basket (HTV) of Ligue Nationale de Basket Pro A, the top tier professional league in France, and Promitheas Patras Basketball Club of the Greek League.
Jones played in 11 games, including six starts, with HTV, averaging 5.8 points and 4.2 rebounds. In 14 games, including 13 starts, with Promitheas Patras, Jones improved his averages to 10.7 points and 5.4 rebounds per contest.
In his first professional season with Liége Basket of the Belgian League in 2015-16, Jones produced averages of 14.3 points and 5.2 rebounds in 31 games, including 30 starts. He also led the league in steals with an average of 2.5 per game and helped Liége reach the Supercup Final.
In four seasons with the Colonials, Jones compiled career totals of 1,632 points and 846 rebounds. He is the program's all-time leading rebounder and ranks fourth all-time in scoring. In 136 career games, including 94 starts, Jones produced averages of 12.0 points and 6.2 rebounds per contest. He also ranks ninth in program history in both field goals (494) and three-point field goals (196) while ranking second in free throws (562).
During his four seasons in a Robert Morris uniform, Jones was a part of 92 victories, the most by a class in school history. He played in nine career games across three postseason tournaments in his four years at RMU, including the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament (CIT), the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) and the NCAA Tournament.
In the 2012 CIT as a freshman, Jones helped guide the Colonials to the quarterfinals by averaging 7.3 points and 6.0 rebounds in three games. The following year, Jones paced Robert Morris with 15 points in a landmark 59-57 victory over Kentucky (3/19/13) in front of 3,444 fans at the Charles L. Sewall in the first round of the 2013 NIT. He also scored 25 points in an 89-78 victory @ St. John's (3/18/14) in the first round of the 2014 NIT.
A three-time All-Northeast Conference (NEC) selection, Jones capped his career by helping lead the Colonials to their first victory in the NCAA Tournament since 1983 and just their second overall in school history in an 81-77 win over North Florida (3/18/15) as part of the 2015 NCAA First Four in Dayton, Ohio, at UD Arena. Jones scored a team-high 21 points off the bench, grabbed seven rebounds and registered five steals.
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In seven seasons under head coach
Andrew Toole, Robert Morris has posted an overall record of 134-106 (.558), including a mark of 82-42 (.661) against league foes. Toole has guided the Colonials to a pair of NEC regular-season championships (2013, 2014) as well as the 2015 NEC Tournament title.
Since the beginning of the 2007-08 campaign, RMU has compiled an overall record of 207-136 (.603) and has appeared in the NCAA Tournament three times (2009, 2010, 2015), the NIT three times (2008, 2013, 2014) and the 2012 CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament (CIT).
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