Jadis Jones named Gatorade Missouri Boys Basketball Player of the Year

Jadis Jones averaged 27.1 points and 12.2 rebounds per game

Nate Latsch, SBLive Sports | Mar 21, 2024

Jadis Jones named Gatorade Missouri Boys Basketball Player of the Year /

New Madrid County Central senior guard Jadis Jones was announced as the 2023-24 Gatorade Missouri Boys Basketball Player of the Year on Thursday morning.

A 6-foot-5 senior, Jones averaged 27.1 points, 12.2 rebounds, 4.4 assists, 3.3 steals and 1.6 blocked shots per game as New Madrid County Central went 28-3 and won its second straight Missouri Class 3 championship.

Jones, who also excelled on the football field for the Eagles, finished his high school basketball career with 2,298 points and 1,106 rebounds.

He had previously committed to play football at Coastal Carolina but has since reopened his recruiting for basketball.

Jones is the first player from New Madrid County Central to win the award and follows recent winners in Staley's Kyan Evans (2023), Blair Oaks' Luke Northweather (2022), Greenwood Laboratory School's Aminu Mohammed (2021) and CBC's Caleb Love (2020).

New Madrid County Central's Jadis Jones / Photo by Lisa Rigdon

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Published Mar 21, 2024

NATE LATSCH, SBLIVE SPORTS

Nate Latsch is a Regional Editor at SBLive Sports overseeing high school coverage for Missouri, Illinois and Indiana. A veteran sportswriter and multimedia content creator, Latsch has covered high school sports in the St. Louis area and Missouri for 20 years, with a focus on high school football, basketball, baseball and football and basketball recruiting. He has worked for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, STLhighschoolsports.com, the Associated Press, FOX Sports Midwest, MLB.com and Scout.com. In addition to covering high school sports, Latsch has covered youth, college and professional sports, including covering the St. Louis Cardinals, St. Louis Blues and St. Louis Rams, the University of Missouri and Saint Louis University.