Corey Johnson (basketball)

Corey Johnson
Corey Johnson
No. 25 – Harvard Crimson
Position Shooting guard
League Ivy League
Personal information
Born (1996-04-19) April 19, 1996
Ottawa, Ontario
Nationality Canadian
Listed height 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
Listed weight 91 kg (201 lb)
Career information
High school Vermont Academy
(Saxtons River, Vermont)
College Harvard (2015–present)

Corey Johnson (born April 19, 1996) is a Canadian college basketball player for Harvard University of the Ivy League.

College career

Johnson began his college career at Harvard. After entering the university, Johnson spent the 2015–16 basketball season competing for the Crimson. During his freshman year, he helped lead the crimson to a 14–16 record, 6–8 in Ivy League play to finish in fourth place. Johnson averaged 9.8 points with a .398 three-point field goal percentage; and, he also set a Harvard freshman record with 74 3-pointers in 2015-16, the third-most in program history.[1]

As a sophomore, Johnson averaged 8.2 points and 2.8 rebounds per game.[2] In the Ivy League season finale on March 3, 2018, Johnson led Harvard with 17 points in a 93-74 win over Columbia to give the Crimson the No. 1 seed in the Ivy League tournament. He shot 5 of 8 from behind the 3-point arc.[3] Johnson averaged 6.5 points and 2.9 rebounds per game as a junior.[2]

International career

While still in high school, in 2014 Johnson tried out for and was selected to the U-18 Canadian National Basketball team. The team won the silver medal at the U-18 FIBA Americas for Men in Colorado Springs. In 2015, Johnson was selected to the U-19 Canadian National Basketball team. The team went 6-1 and finished 5th at the FIBA U-19 World Championship. This was the national teams highest finish at the event. Johnson averaged 12.1 points, 3.4 rebounds and 0.7 assists for Canada FIBA U-19 World Championship.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Corey Johnson". Harvard Athletics. Retrieved September 27, 2016.
  2. 1 2 "Corey Johnson Player Profile, Harvard, NCAA Stats, Events Stats". RealGM. Retrieved August 20, 2018.
  3. ↑ "Harvard tops Columbia, claims top seed to Ivy tournament". USA Today. Associated Press. March 3, 2018. Retrieved August 20, 2018.
  4. ↑ "Corey Johnson". FIBA.com. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
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