It took JaJuan Johnson a couple of seasons to figure it out, but he was able to find his niche as one of the Golden Eagles’ top scorers and contributors last season.
Marquette even awarded him with the team’s Most Improved Player Award, and deservingly so.
Coming into Milwaukee as a consensus Top-100 nationally ranked recruit--reaching as high as 27th on ESPN 100--he failed to live up to the hype in his first two years.
It wasn’t entirely his fault. In his freshman year, then-head coach Buzz Williams put the brakes on freshmen during a tumultuous, disappointing 17-15 season after reaching the Elite Eight a year before.