Phil Johnson (basketball, born 1958)
Phillip Lane Johnson (born June 4, 1958) is an American college basketball coach. He was the interim men's head basketball coach at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). Early life and college career After graduating from Putnam City High School in Warr Acres, Oklahoma in 1976, Johnson attended East Central Oklahoma State University. At East Central Oklahoma State, Johnson was basketball co-captain in his senior season. Johnson graduated from East Central Oklahoma with a B.A. in education in 1981. He then earned an M.A. from Henderson State University in 1982. Coaching career Assistant coach and junior college head coach After earning his master's degree, Johnson began his coaching career in 1982 at East Central Oklahoma State and coached there for three seasons. In 1985, Johnson worked his first head coaching position at Northern Oklahoma Junior College and coached there for two seasons. In 1987, Johnson became head coach at Seminole Junior College, also in Oklahoma. In his three seasons coaching Seminole, Johnson led Seminole to the 1988 state championship and 1989 Bi-State Conference championship. Johnson moved to the NCAA ranks in the 1990–91 season as an assistant under J. D. Barnett at Tulsa. The following season, Johnson began