How is infamous cult leader Jim Jones connected to this years NCAA tournament?
He is grandfather to player Rob Jones. In the boisterous aftermath of helping his San Diego Toreros clinch an NCAA Tournament berth, Rob Jones slapped one of his prominent tattoos, the one with the cross and the name Jones, and pointed to his father, Jim Jones Jr., in the stands. The Toreros had just upset Gonzaga to win the West Coast Conference tournament and reach the NCAAs for the fourth time in school history. Between the freshman forward and his father, though, there was something much deeper going on. Three decades after the horrific mass suicide-murder at Jonestown, it was good to be a Jones. “The win was great, but when he did that, well, I’m a grumpy 47-year-old man and it brought a tear to my eye,” Jim Jones Jr. said. “Rob has just given me the opportunity to enjoy it again.” Rob Jones feels no stigma about being the grandson of cult leader Jim Jones, who 30 years ago this November led more than 900 of his followers in a mass suicide in a South American jungle. He speaks ope
