Tyler Johnson POY plus the all-area and all-league squads

St. Francis' Tyler Johnson is the Mercury News Player of the Year:

Boys basketball player of the year: Tyler Johnson
Dennis Knight
Mercury News
4/06/2010

A teammate still remembers seeing St. Francis Tyler Johnson for the first time.

"He was this little, short kid with a 'fro," Lancers senior Patrick Crowley said of that moment four years ago at a St. Francis basketball practice. "People underestimate him, but he has that quick first step and can jump so high. I couldn't guard him then, and I can't guard him now."

Not many players could guard the St. Francis senior guard. Johnson isn't an intimidating presence — he's 6-foot-1, 165 pounds — but when he has the ball, he attracts plenty of attention...

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