Brandon Johnson will remember June 10 as the day the University of San Diego's Sports Center reopened with a new gym floor after being closed for two months. He was the first guy shooting baskets and testing it out.
The other reason -- and this one is more important to USD's 2009-10 basketball season hopes -- is it's the day Johnson officially received approval for a fifth-year medical shirt from the West Coast Conference Executive Committee.
"It's a blessing," Johnson said. "They said I would probably get it, but I didn't know when it would happen. I'm ready to get going."
The 6-foot combo guard's season ended last year in the eighth game at San Diego State when he suffered a ruptured Achilles' tendon. It was a loss the Toreros never recovered from.
Johnson has averaged 13.2 points a game for his career. He ranks fifth all-time on the Toreros' career scoring list and needs 340 points to pass former teammate Gyno Pomare, who set the record last season with 1,725. He also only needs 40 assists to become the school's career assist leader...
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