Walter "Weasel" Johnson (2014) - North Texas Athletics Hall of Fame

Walter "Weasel" Johnson

Induction:
2014
Class:
1977

Walter "Weasel" Johnson was the dynamic point guard for the most prolific scoring and entertaining teams in school history.

He set the school record for assists in a single season in 1976-77 with 208 as he averaged 7.7 assists per game. In his first season with NT in 1975-76, he dished out 142 assists as the Mean Green scored 96 points a game and won a then school-record 22 games.

In 1976-77, NT won 21 games and averaged 87.5 points a game. Johnson quarterbacked the Mean Green to wins over Baylor, Arizona State, SMU, Kansas State, TCU, Tulsa and Creighton. North Texas scored over 100 points 16 times in his two seasons as point guard.

Weasel scored 13.5 points a game his first year and 14.4 points a game his senior season. He was the first player in school history to play 1,000 minutes in a season, and has the second highest minutes per game average in history at 37.0 in 1976-77.