Matt Johnson
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- Height:
- 6-1
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- Hometown:
- Fergus Falls, Minn.
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- Position:
- G
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- Year:
- Jr.
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- High School:
- Fergus Falls
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- Major:
- Business Finance
Bio
Personal: Participated in basketball and football at Fergus Falls HS...son of Todd and Dacia Johnson
Why did you pick Concordia: Family-like atmosphere, great people and great traditions
Post Graduation plans: Work in business
The JOHNSON File
Favorite food: Tater tot hotdish
Favorite restaurant: Texas Roadhouse
Favorite movie: Avengers/MarveAnything ESPN
Top song(s) on your playlist: Fall for Me, More Than My Hometown, 865
The place in the world I most want to visit: Australia
My favorite professional sports team: Green Bay Packers, Minnesota Timberwolves, Minnesota Twins
My favorite pro athlete when I was growing up: Devin Booker
My dream job is: NBA Basketball Coach
News mentions
Concordia earned the NABC Team Academic Excellence Award, and had four individual student-athletes receive NABC Honors Court accolades.
Junior Matthew Johnson and sophomore Rowan Nelson both earned MIAC postseason honors as selected by the conference coaches it was announced on Tuesday.
Concordia guard Matthew Johnson sank a 3-point shot to lift Cobbers to victory in final game of regular season over the weekend.
Matt Johnson hit a 40-foot 3-pointer with .08 of a second left in the second half to give Concordia a 68-65 win over Hamline and send lone senior David Birkeland out on a winning note.
Concordia’s road to the MIAC playoffs reached a dead end in the second half against regular-season champion Carleton. The Cobbers were outscored 47-24 in the final 20 minutes of play to fall out of contention for one of the six spots in the conference tournament.
Concordia’s drive for the MIAC playoffs is now officially in high gear. The Cobbers outscored St. Scholastica in each half, led for all but 1:22 and rolled to an 81-67 win at home.
Concordia erased leads in both the halves in St. Peter, went on an 8-0 run midway through the second stanza and came away with a 61-57 win against Gustavus.
Concordia led for 37:18 of the 40-minutes in their game with Macalester, knocked down key free throws in the final minutes to survive a late 1-man flurry and beat Macalester 83-78.
This time the horseshoe didn’t land in the pit and come oh so close. On Monday, the Cobbers threw a dead-on ringer and beat St. John’s 81-76.
The story remained the same for the Cobbers as they were close down the stretch, but couldn’t come up with a go-ahead basket and fell by fewer than six points.
Concordia was perfect from the free throw line but it wasn’t enough as they dropped another close decision. The Cobbers lost 73-67 at St. Olaf on Wednesday to add to their list of close defeats.
Concordia staged a second-half comeback at St. Mary’s, took a 1-point lead late in the game but then had the Cardinals make six of their seven free throws down the stretch and lost 85-81.
Concordia was outscored 19-8 in the final 9-minutes of its conference game with Augsburg ad fell 71-66 in the first home game of the 2023 calendar year.
Concordia held off a late-charging Hamline team and posted a 65-60 win in St. Paul. The Cobbers, who had close calls at the end of their last two games, used that experience to keep the Pipers from passing CC at the wire.
For the second straight game, Concordia battled all the way to the wire, only to be edged out by a score line of 70-63 on the road at one of the conference leaders.
Concordia battled league-leading Carleton through eight lead changes and 10 different tie scores in the first 35-minutes of the first game of the 2023 calendar year. The Knights won the game by going on a 10-3 run in the final 4-minutes of the second half to claim the 70-63 win.
Concordia couldn't recreate their second-half magic against Wis.-Platteville and fell 81-65 to the Pioneers in their final game of the D3hoops.com Classic in Las Vegas.
Concordia scored 51 points in the second half and outlasted Ramapo (N.J.) 80-71 in the first of two games at the D3hoops.com Classic in Las Vegas.
Concordia got a key basket just before halftime, and then outscored St. Mary's 43-39 in the second to come away with an 82-77 win and a 2-game win streak heading into the holiday break.
Concordia outscored Augsburg 9-1 in the final 2-minutes of their conference game in Minneapolis. The Cobbers never trailed in the second half and went on to win 84-76.
Concordia and Bethel both posted double-digit leads in their game in Arden Hills, but it was an ice-cold shooting streak at the end of the game that cost the Cobbers in an 81-77 loss.
It was a total team effort in Concordia’s 92-62 win over non-conference opponent Martin Luther.
A pair of tough scoring stretches in the second half cost Concordia in its first game after the Thanksgiving break.
Matthew Johnson scored 42 points, but Crown shot an unbelievable 55.2% from outside the arc and beat the Cobbers 99-86.
Concordia was never able to knock down shots on a consistent basis, could never overcome a 4-point halftime deficit and lost 74-69 in the season opener for both teams.