Jackson credits surroundings for longevity, success at WWU

On the brink of achieving 500 career wins, it would be common-place for a coach to bask in individual accomplishments and rekindle each personal move made in order to capture such an extraordinary coaching milestone. But Western Washington University men's basketball coach Brad Jackson prefers to focus on all the working parts that enabled him to be where he is in his 38 years of coaching basketball and 27 years coaching with WWU.