| Tessa Johnson | |
| Number: | 5 |
| Position: | Guard |
| Height Ft: | 6 |
| Height In: | 0 |
| League: | Southeastern Conference |
| Team: | South Carolina Gamecocks |
| Nationality: | American |
| High School: | St. Michael-Albertville (St. Michael, Minnesota) |
| College: | South Carolina (2023–present) |
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Tessa Johnson is an American college basketball player for the South Carolina Gamecocks of the Southeastern Conference (SEC).
Johnson played basketball for St. Michael-Albertville High School in St. Michael, Minnesota. She missed her sophomore season with a broken leg.[1] As a senior, Johnson led her team to the Class 4A state championship.[2] She was named Minnesota Miss Basketball, Minnesota Gatorade Player of the Year and Star Tribune Metro Player of the Year, while being selected to play in the McDonald's All-American Game.[3] Rated a four-star recruit by ESPN, she committed to play college basketball for South Carolina over offers from Minnesota and Baylor.[4]
As a freshman, Johnson scored a career-high and a team-high 19 points in an 87–75 win over Iowa at the 2024 national championship game. She finished the season averaging 6.2 points per game.[5]
|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2023–24| style="text-align:left;"| South Carolina|35||2||17.9||44.7||43.2||86.3||1.7||1.1||0.7||0.1||0.9||6.6 |- class="sortbottom"|style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Career|35||2||17.9||44.7||43.2||86.3||1.7||1.1||0.7||0.1||0.9||6.6 |- class="sortbottom"|style="text-align:center;" colspan="14"|Statistics retrieved from Sports-Reference.[6]
Johnson's older sister, Rae, played college basketball for Iowa State.[7]