Nick Johnson - Men's Basketball Coach

Nick Johnson

Title:
Assistant Coach / Director of Basketball Operations
Email:
njohn117@utm.edu

Nick Johnson is in his second season serving as an assistant coach and director of basketball operations for the University of Tennessee at Martin men's basketball program in 2025-26.

Last season, UT Martin featured 16 newcomers, which were tied with California, IU Indy and Louisville for the most in NCAA Division I men’s basketball in 2024-25. The Skyhawks also touted the most international players (12) in the NCAA Division I ranks, which led to national attention when NCAA.com profiled UT Martin in a feature story as part of World Basketball Day on Dec. 21.

Navigating the entire season without a single minute of playing time from a returner, the Skyhawks won their first-round matchup in the Ohio Valley Conference Championship tournament, posting 14 victories against a brutal schedule that included five postseason participants (three of which took part in the NCAA Tournament) and nine games against eventual 20-win teams. UT Martin went 3-1 against the OVC regular season champion (1-1 against Southeast Missouri) and tournament champion (2-0 against SIUE) while also defeating CollegeBasketballInsider.com champion Illinois State. In addition to NCAA Tournament participant SIUE, the Skyhawks also recorded sweeps over OVC rivals Western Illinois, Eastern Illinois and Southern Indiana.

UT Martin wound up ranking in the top-20 in NCAA Division I men's basketball in offensive rebounding per game (13.73, 12^th), bench points per game (29.73, 17^th), rebounds per game (39.42, 19^th) and three-point field goal attempts per game (28.8, 20^th) in 2024-25. The Skyhawks also topped the OVC in three-point field goals made (9.1 per contest) and offensive rebounding (13.1 per outing) in league play.

Johnson was a member of Skyhawk head coach Jeremy Shulman’s staff at Eastern Florida State. Johnson served as an assistant coach alongside Moore for the past two seasons in Melbourne, Fla. During that time, the Titans pieced together a 49-15 overall record and went 25-6 against conference competition. That included a 27-5 record and 14-2 mark in Citrus Conference action in 2023-24, leading to the program’s 11^th league title in the last 12 seasons.

Before Johnson accepted the position at EFSC, he spent one season as a graduate assistant under head coach Gabriel Rutledge at Webber International, a NAIA program located in Babson Park, Fla. Johnson helped with many aspects of the Warrior program, including recruiting, practice, filming and scouting.

Johnson was a student assistant for four seasons at North Florida, working under head coach Matthew Driscoll – the program’s all-time winningest coach. In his four seasons (2017-21) as an undergraduate, the Ospreys combined for 59 victories and a 35-23 record (.603 winning percentage) in Atlantic Sun Conference action. That included a historic 21-win campaign in 2019-20 as North Florida went 13-3 in league play to capture the ASUN regular season title with Martin native (and eventual UT Martin men’s basketball coaching staff member) Garrett Sams on the roster. The Ospreys led all of NCAA Division I men’s basketball with 391 three-point field goals made per game and received a postseason invitation before the season was cancelled in March.

A Merritt Island, Fla. native, Johnson has coached at basketball camps put on by ESPN college basketball analyst Jay Bilas Basketball Camp and Louisville head coach Pat Kelsey.

Johnson graduated from North Florida in 2021 with a bachelor’s degree in sport management.