Jamaal Tatum

Who is Jamaal Tatum?

Jamaal Tatum is an American professional basketball guard. He is 6'2" and 175 pounds.

As a high schooler, Tatum was a finalist as the Missouri Mr. Basketball, becoming the leading scorer at Helias High School in Jefferson City. He ended up setting the school record for points in a game. Tatum is noted for also lettering in football as a sophomore and soccer as a freshman, and consistently posting an excellent GPA, possibly due to both his parents being involved in the education system. In his first semester at SIU, Tatum posted a 4.0 GPA.

Rising to the status of a star basketball player at Southern Illinois, Tatum was known for his incredible quickness and great long-range shooting. In only his freshman season, he was second in the Missouri Valley Conference in three-point shooting.

By the time he was a junior, he had led the Salukis back to prominence and took them to the 2006 NCAA Tournament as a #11 seed, where they would lose to West Virginia in the first round, but Tatum was named the CBS player of the game for his team. That year, he led the team in scoring and received various Missouri Valley Conference awards.