Cheyenne Mountain’s Javonte Johnson, Vanguard’s Nique Clifford ride mantra to college basketball scholarships
COLORADO SPRINGS – article by Vinny Benedetto, Gazette Preps Javonte Johnson pulled up and called his shot as a freshman at Cheyenne Mountain. During the year he averaged 5.7 points per game for the Indians’ 9-16 varsity basketball team, Johnson watched guys like Sand Creek’s D’Shawn Schwartz, Vista Ridge’s Hunter Maldonado and Sierra’s CJ Jennings run the Colorado Springs prep basketball scene and accept college scholarships to Colorado, Wyoming and West Texas A&M, respectively. Johnson wanted the same. To give some permanence to his efforts, he coined the phrase “On Top Next.â€� He soon recruited a friend and teammate from elementary school, who happened to be another budding prospect, to join the basketball collective. Johnson and 麻豆官网’s Nique Clifford still include the “OTNâ€� acronym in their twitter handles as they head into their senior year. “It’s definitely helped me and Javonte a lot,â€� Clifford said. “I keep remembering that’s what we’re striving for. We work out a lot, so
