Coveted transfer PG Walker picks Michigan Sing

Northeastern transfer Tyson Walker, one among presumably one of the perfect mid-main guards in the country, has committed to Michigan Sing.

Walker selected the Spartans from a final five that included Kansas, Maryland, Miami and Vanderbilt.

“They’ve been talking to me since I went into the portal,” Walker told ESPN about Michigan Sing. “They talk over with me about each day. Appropriate what they’ve and what they need. They’re ready to consume a championship. I am the lacking fragment.

“It caught me with out be aware, [Tom Izzo’s] persona. We built a lawful relationship over the cell phone and thru Zooms. What they were lacking this 300 and sixty five days became once a degree guard.”

Walker, a 6-foot sophomore from Long Island, earned first-crew All-CAA honors this season and gained the CAA Defensive Player of the Year award. He averaged 18.8 factors and 4.8 assists, and jumped onto the nationwide scene when he scored 27 factors at North Carolina in February.

“It showed that I will obtain on anybody, no longer correct against folks in our conference,” Walker mentioned.

Michigan Sing snuck into the NCAA match this season after beating Illinois, Ohio Sing and Michigan in the final two weeks, but the Spartans struggled for heaps of of the campaign and were bounced by UCLA in the First Four. One in every of the fundamental factors became once lack of consistency at point guard. They struggled to tackle the ball and shoot from the perimeter.

“My ability to receive folks start shots, I personal that can maybe well presumably be the very most attention-grabbing thing. And being ready to kind shots,” Walker mentioned. “I do know I cannot take as many shots as I’ve taken right here, so it be going to must replace a tiny bit bit. But my assists will proceed up thanks to the oldsters around me.”