Josh Johnson enters his first season in 2020-21 as an assistant men's basketball coach at his alma mater, Webster University.
The former Gorlok guard lettered in men's basketball from 2016-20 and was two-time All-SLIAC performer, including earning First-Team All-SLIAC honors and being named the SLIAC Men's Basketball Player of the Year during the 2019-20 season. Along with being the SLIAC Player of the Year and a First-Team All-SLIAC selection, he was also named a Second-Team NABC All-District selection, a Second-Team D3Hoops.com All-Central Region selection and was named to the 2020 SLIAC All-Tournament Team.
As a Gorlok, Johnson, who was the 2019-20 Webster Athletics Co-Male Student-Athlete of the Year, played in 80 career games and made 74 starts and tallied 1,255 points, which is fifth on the school's all-time list. Along with scoring 1,255 career points, he also holds the school's all-time mark for free throw percentage (88.6 percent), second in career 3-point field goal percentage (39.6 percent), third in career free throws made (279) and fourth in career 3-point field goals made (166).
During his senior season in 2019-20, Johnson averaged 18.6 points, 4.7 rebounds and 2.2 assists per game and shot 44 percent from the field, 42 percent from the 3-point line and a team-best 86 percent from the free throw line. He scored in double figures in 24 of 26 games and ended his collegiate career with 11 consecutive games of scoring in double figures and tallied eight games of scoring 20 or more points, including three games of scoring 30 or more points.
The St. Louis, Mo., native also ranks in the career Top 10 charts in 3-point field goal attempts (419), games started (74), scoring average (15.7), field goals attempted (940), minutes played (2,451), field goal percentage (43.1 percent) and assists (236). He also holds the school's single-season mark for free throw percentage as he shot 90.3 percent from the line in 2018-19.
During his four year Webster career, Johnson recorded 63 games of scoring in double figures, including 22 games of tallying 20 or more points. In addition, he had four games of scoring 30 or more points, including a career high 35 points during the 2019-20 season at Principia College. That 35 point game is tied for the 13th most points scored in a game in the program's history.
Over the final three years of his career, Johnson scored a total of 1,244 points, including scoring 450 and 483 points respectively the past two seasons. His 483 points in 2019-20 are seventh on the school's single season chart, while the 450 points in 2018-19 are 12th in a single season in school history.
In high school, Johnson lettered in basketball at Clayton High School for Coach Blake Ahearn and in his time at CHS, he was a First-Team All-Conference performer as a senior in 2015-16. During his high school career, Johnson averaged nearly 14 points per game. He played his AAU basketball with the St. Louis Falcons.
Johnson earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Criminology from Webster in May of 2020.
