In tonight's NCAA championship basketball game between the Univ. of Tennessee and the Univ. of Connecticut, there will be a proud papa in the stands watching his daughter going for the biggest prize in women's basketball.    Turner Jackson, who won the NCAA Div. II title at 158 pounds for the Univ. of Tennessee - Chattanooga in 1975 and 1976, will be sitting in the stands in New Orleans tonight, cheering for his daughter Brittany Jackson, a junior guard for the Lady Vols.    Brittany Jackson should get playing time in the game this evening. She has played in 30 games, starting eight of them. She averages 7.6 points a game and is especially skilled as a three-point scorer. And she is the daughter of a wrestling champion and coach as a father and a college basketball player as a mother.    Brittany was a star at Bradley Central High School in Cleveland, Tenn. According to her mother Liz, because her dad was the wrestling coach there for 22 years, Brittany and her younger sister Lindsay, also a talented basketball player, grew up around wrestling.    "He would have her down at practice," said Liz Jackson. "She knew as much as anybody about wrestling. She knew a lot of the moves. She would be wrestling with her dad. She lived in the gym growing up. Both girls enjoyed being around the wrestling."    "We put athletics in her life. She liked it," said Turner Jackson. "My wife played basketball at Middle Tennessee. I wrestled at Chattanooga. Athletics were good for us, and helped us very much."    It was Brittany's success in basketball that helped Turner decide after two decades to get out of wrestling coaching and pass on his program to a talented assistant coach.    "Because of his coaching, he never got to all of her basketball games," said Liz Jackson. "He gave it all up and handed it to his assistant. He was missing too much of their lives. No matter how bad he wanted to coach, he wanted to be there for her. We have been travelling around the country watching her play basketball."    Turner still cares about wrestling, even though he is no longer coaching it. "When he can, he gets to wrestling still," said Liz.     "I love wrestling," said Turner. "I do a camp during the summer at our high school. I gave our program to an athlete that wrestled for me, and he has taken it to a new level. We have won 14 state titles."    Turner tries to give his daughter some perspective about the differences in their college experiences.    "It is tough at a big time program like Tennessee," said Turner. "It is a great opportunity. They travel all over the nation. I told her I went with 15 guys in a van. They fly everywhere. I was third in the Midlands and a kid asked me for an autograph. My daughter was signing autographs before she played a single game at Tennessee. I gave one autograph my entire career."    People often hear about how successful wrestlers often have sons who go on to follow their dad into success in sports. Sometimes it is in wrestling, like the Perry family, or the Bill Koll - Rob Koll father and son combination. At other times, the sons choose another sport and carry on their dad's legacy as a champion.    Then again, wrestling parents often have successful athletes from their daughters, also. Wrestling superstar Dan Gable only had daughters, and one of his girls went on to become a college swimmer.    Turner Jackson has a connection with Dan Gable from his career.    "Coach Jim Morgan offered me good competition," said Turner. "My first college match was in the Southern Open in 1971 against Dan Gable. It went downhill from there."    This year, at Ohio State Univ., there were two players on the Div. I softball team there that have a wrestling background.  Freshman catcher/outfielder Christina Douglas is the daughter of two-time Olympian and past World champion Melvin Douglas.  Junior outfielder Meghan Rowlands is the sister of two-time Ohio State NCAA champion Tommy Rowlands.    There are many other past wrestlers who have passed on their love for athletics and their passion for competition to all of their kids, both sons and daughters.    Turner Jackson is one of those parents. And he is also a fan. Connecticut has won a number of games over Tennessee in recent years.    "I am hoping that the law of averages catches up this time," said Turner. "I have been to three Final Fours. Most parents dont go to any. It is very special. She likes this program; it is a really fine program."    And when the Tennessee Volunteers, led by the legendary coach Pat Summitt, take the floor this evening for all the marbles on national television, one of those wrestling fathers will be in the stands, supporting his talented daughter. And by the end of the night, there may be another Turner who takes home a NCAA title to Tennessee.