Vince Johnson enters his second season as an assistant coach for the Saint Peter's men's basketball team in 2025-26. He joined the Peacocks' staff ahead of the 2024-25 season.
Johnson came to Jersey City from Robert Morris University, where he was a men’s basketball assistant coach for the Colonials from 2020-2024.
Johnson, a native of Harlem, N.Y., spent the 2019-20 campaign in Neptune, N.J., as camp director with the Hoop Group. As part of his role, Johnson assisted in recruiting for various tournaments as well as overseeing middle school tournaments.
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Prior to his position at the Hoop Group, Johnson spent three years as the head coach at Pope John XXIII High School in Sparta, N.J. Johnson had multiple student-athletes earn all-county accolades during his stint as head coach from 2016-19.
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In the collegiate ranks, Johnson began his NCAA Division I career as director of basketball operations at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa., during the 2014-15 campaign. The Mountain hawks finished the season with an overall record of 17-15 (.533), finishing second in the Patriot League standings with a mark of 10-8 (.556).
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Johnson is a 2010 graduate of St. Thomas Aquinas in Sparkill, N.Y., where as a senior in 2009-10 he averaged 8.5 points and 3.9 rebounds in 26 games for the NCAA Division II Spartans. Johnson played his prep career at Rice High School in New York, N.Y.