After having lost three players in two days to transfers, everyone knew that Virginia Cavaliers basketball head coach Tony Bennett would need to go to the transfer market to restock the arsenal for next year. Today, Bennett got his guy.
A graduate transfer from Rutgers, the 6’1”, 186-pound guard Nigel Johnson will be eligible to play immediately for the Hoos. At Rutgers, where he only played one season after transferring from Kansas State, Johnson averaged 11.3 points per game as the team’s second-leading scorer, playing an average of 26.2 minutes and shooting 37.