"Clint Johnson" is an United States/American author of nonfiction, primarily about the American Civil War. He is a graduate of the University of Florida.

Fascinated with the American Civil War since childhood, Johnson has written eight books on the subject. He was also coauthor of They Call Me Big House, ISBN 0-89587-303-6, the autobiography of the late Clarence Gaines, one of America's best collegiate basketball coach (sport)/coaches. Johnson is also the author of two corporate biographies, and hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles on business, history and travel.

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I don't remember. Probably had something to do with girls.

The year before I got there, KU was in the final four. At that time there were only 32 teams in the tournament. So you had to be one of the best to get in. It wasn't like today where the no. 1 seed plays a 16 seed that barely had a .500 season.

We just had a lot of good athletes at the time. We won league in just about everything. It was one of those time periods where top to bottom, senior class to sophomore, there were a lot of good athletes.

I think it's when you grow up near a place like that and you have an opportunity to go there, how could you not?

After my junior year coach Zacher came to me and said 'I was talking to the coaches at KU and they said they were interested in you.

I don't know how many teams have the H-3 any more. But under him it was hustle, hustle, hustle. It was also about that time when the saying 'Be a Pioneer, be a champion' came out. And the community started getting involved more too.

It was between Christmas and New Years. The teams gathered together in Kansas City and played the tournament.

Kemper Arena was brand new my senior year. It was an awesome experience because you can see everybody play and get to talk to them. I really enjoyed that. It's really too bad they don't do that anymore.

I was the only returning starter. We just didn't have the players top to bottom that we had before, and we ran into some good teams.