During his four seasons at Ohio State, Johnson helped the Buckeyes to an record during the span, while reaching three NCAA Tournaments, including second-round appearances in and and a No.
This past season, the Buckeyes were ranked as high as No. Liddell, and the Buckeyes boasted the fourth-most efficient offense in America. In his first year in Columbus, Ohio State finished the season with a overall record.
The Buckeyes recorded a Big Ten Conference regular-season record to help the Buckeyes to a second-place finish in the league standings. Heading into the Big Ten Tournament, which, along with the NCAA Tournament was canceled, the Buckeyes built an overall record of with a league mark of , good enough for a tie for the No. The Big Ten was considered the best league nationally and the toughest top-to-bottom in perhaps the history of the league in , only to be outdone in Johnson arrived in Columbus after 10 seasons as an assistant at Butler, where he helped the Bulldogs to eight NCAA Tournaments, including consecutive Final Fours in and , four regular-season conference championships and three conference tournament titles.
The Bulldogs ranked in the Top 25 nationally eight times in those 10 seasons, had seven players garner Academic All-America honors and sent two players to the NBA. In , Johnson was invited to the Villa 7 Consortium, which brings together university athletics directors and the country's elite assistant coaches in an effort to prepare the next generation of college basketball leaders.
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Ryan Sims Assistant Coach 11th season. Adam Blaylock Assistant Coach 3rd season. Mike Wolf Assistant Coach 2nd season. Jordan Counts Video Coordinator 1st Season. Josh Kelly Director of Analytics 1st Season. Ad Blocker Detected. Thanks for visiting! Obviously they were the national champs the next year. We have to be able to use that as motivation.
The thing that hurts you as a coach -- North Texas's coach is a very good coach, friend of mine. We talked about just how good they were, how tough they were. It wasn't something that we took lightly. We knew North Texas was very, very good. But that's part of March Madness. We've really tried to magnify some of the things we struggled with in that game, and hopefully that can make us a better team and a better program.
Your freshmen class, how are they coming along? Trey Kaufman had a hand injury. How is he coming along? They have a lot of similarities in their makeup. Very grounded, work hard, put a lot of time in trying to improve, trying to get themselves ready for the season.
Brian Waddell is from here in Indianapolis, has been fabulous. How he didn't have other high major offers, kind of blows my mind to be frank with you. But just a winner, a guy that's won two state championships, very fluid, understands the game.
Trey Kaufman won two state championships also. Hurt his hand. That set him back a little bit as he missed the first month of workouts in the summer.
But can really score the basketball, has a good feel for what's going on. Just trying to learn from a defensive standpoint and then all of our ins and outs offensively in the stuff that we run. Caleb Furst made the U team and really put himself in a great position, got a chance to play the four and the five in the Us, which he'll play for us. But very good. Very mobile, can really move. Has really gotten to where he makes his free throws, can knock down open threes, good athlete, can move, do a lot of different things.
You mentioned in your opening statement about having so much depth and talent, people buying into that. How much are you looking forward to having that sort of versatility to match up with everyone? How much do you expect to see Trevion and Zach Edey play together?
I think we can use that size together in snippets right now. It just depends how skilled your four is, or if we feel we can flip that matchup offensively to where we might have some struggles offensively but not as many as you're going to have at the other end. And what you can live with. I think sometimes as a coach, that's what it really gets to. Having that kind of depth, being able to play a lot of different ways can really help you. What's been working for you, a lot of times coaches like to stay with that.
Sometimes what's been working for you now isn't going to work against the particular team you get. That piece right there, as a coach you wait for kind of it organically to come to you, you're kind of upset when it doesn't. You have to figure it out for yourself. You make it difficult. It's a very good problem to have.
I wish I had the exact answer for you. I think it's really going to depend on those other guys. The problem with college basketball, people say it's really tough to play big, most people's big guys aren't very good.
That's why.
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