Tempe, Ariz. • Utes sophomore center Jayce Johnson’s potential has been evident since his days as a high school all-American and one of the top-rated college prospects in the country.
The 7-foot, 235-pound California native has shown flashes that he had grown closer to putting it together. However, those signs usually came with just enough near misses to keep questioning how much of an impact Johnson could actually make.
Johnson transformed into a difference maker in the paint on both ends of the floor in Utah’s overtime upset of No. 21 Arizona State in Tempe.