Former LeMoyne-Owen basketball coach Jerry C. Johnson dies
‘We lost a legend today,’ Penny Hardaway says
Former LeMoyne-Owen College basketball coach Jerry Johnson was among those inducted into the inaugural class of honorees during the formal announcement of the Memphis Sports Hall of Fame in a ceremony at AutoZone Park on May 22, 2019. (Brandon Dill/Special To The Daily Memphian file)
Johnson, who was 102, was the first Black coach to win a Division III national basketball title.
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