High school Jordan originally played high school basketball with his older brother
Jeffrey Jordan at
Loyola Academy in
Wilmette, Illinois. In Marcus's sophomore year, the pair led the school to the conference championship and the best season in school history. Jordan transferred to
Whitney Young Magnet High School in Chicago for his junior and senior seasons. He led the Whitney Young Dolphins to the Illinois 4A Championship in 2009, scoring a game-high 19 points in a 69–66 victory over
Waukegan. He also was named the state tournament's
most valuable player. Upon his 2009 graduation, Jordan was rated by
ESPNU as the 60th-best high school senior shooting guard in the country, averaging 10.0 points, 4.5 rebounds, and 3.2 assists per game. During his freshman year, UCF was in the final year of a five-year contract with
Adidas, but Jordan insisted on wearing
Nike Air Jordan shoes because of loyalty to his father. This eventually prompted Adidas to terminate its sponsorship deal with UCF. Jordan scored 8.0 points per game in his true freshman year in 2009–10 and scored 1,152 points in his college career. On November 12, 2010, the opening game of the 2010–11 season, Jordan led UCF to victory against
University of West Florida scoring a career high 28 points on 8–11 field-goal shooting and 5–7 from the 3-point line. He also had a team-high 18 points in upsetting number-16 ranked Florida on December 1, 2010. In August 2012, Jordan left the UCF basketball team, following in the footsteps of his brother, Jeffrey, who departed the team in January of the same year, but he continued to take classes at the school. He graduated in 2013 from
The Rosen College of Hospitality Management with a bachelor’s degree. ==Other activities==