Clint Johnson Quotes (16 Quotes)

It was between Christmas and New Years. The teams gathered together in Kansas City and played the tournament.

The reason for that was, the season before I got there, it was the first year freshmen could play. All those stats that had been collected, those people had been playing for three years.

That's something very special to me. I remember one game they announced the player ahead of me and the crowd just exploded. I swear I moved a foot on the bench.

The year before I got there, KU was in the final four. At that time there were only 32 teams in the tournament. So you had to be one of the best to get in. It wasn't like today where the no. 1 seed plays a 16 seed that barely had a .500 season.

The word was that I was going to be drafted by Golden State. But that just didn't happen. So I tried out for a free agent team which I made.

Against Notre Dame, we had just gotten through playing our league and had gotten used to that clock. They went to a four-corner offense. Four guys would spread out to about the out-of-bounds line and one guy would get the ball in the middle and dribble around and pass or drive to the basket or shoot.

I really enjoyed that. It had been so long. It was 27 years. There were some players from Leavenworth that played football there but not basketball.

I think it's when you grow up near a place like that and you have an opportunity to go there, how could you not

I don't know how many teams have the H-3 any more. But under him it was hustle, hustle, hustle. It was also about that time when the saying 'Be a Pioneer, be a champion' came out. And the community started getting involved more too.

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My role changed. I was the play-maker again. In college I usually had the toughest defensive assignments. I was back to scoring 20 points a game so it was fun.

We just had a lot of good athletes at the time. We won league in just about everything. It was one of those time periods where top to bottom, senior class to sophomore, there were a lot of good athletes.

I was the first to go four years of playing varsity basketball. That's what it comes down to.

We had some tough times those couple years. Then finally we put it all together once again. That was great because it was hard to take those next two years.

If we played on Friday night then on Saturday morning we'd get together at coach's house. His wife would make us breakfast and we'd watch film. I don't think anyone had done that before. Beta had just come out.

The few years leading up to that season hadn't been that good. It was a turn-around year. We had good team chemistry. There was a whole new attitude with the new coach.