Sam Jacobs (basketball)

Jacobs played three seasons at Cornell Big Red from 1985 to 1988. As a senior at Cornell in 1987–88, Jacobs started all 27 games and averaged 15.5 points, 3.2 rebounds, and 3.9 assists per game while being named to the 1987-88 All-Ivy League team.^[1] Jacobs also earned Ivy League Player of the Week three times and was named Cornell Team MVP in 1988.^[3]

In 1987–88, Jacobs was the leading scorer on a Cornell team that went 17–10, won the Ivy League regular season title and qualified for the 1988 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.^[4] At the 1988 NCAA tournament, they lost to Arizona 90–50 in the first round.^[5]

In 2015, Jacobs was inducted into the Philadelphia Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.^[6] A resident of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, he is a member of the Cherry Hill West Hall of Fame and was inducted into the South Jersey Basketball Hall of Fame in 2015.^[2]