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Walker admitted to Kansas State
By HOWARD RICHMAN
The Kansas City Star
MANHATTAN, Kan. | According to Kansas State?s Pat Bosco, there are 23,141 students enrolled in the fall semester.
Wildcat basketball fans cross their fingers that five-star recruit Bill Walker is No. 23,142.
As first reported Wednesday morning by The Star, Walker has been admitted to the university but had not enrolled yet in classes, said Bosco, associate vice president/dean of student life. K-State athletic director Tim Weiser said Wednesday that he has been in Indianapolis this week, meeting with the NCAA at its offices about Walker, a 6-foot-6 small forward from Cincinnati and the No. 6-rated player in the country by Rivals.com.
If Walker breaks through any remaining NCAA red tape, he could sign in the early period that starts Nov. 8 and play as soon as Dec. 17, GoPowercat.com reported. That?s the first game of what would be considered the start of second semester on the athletic calendar. The Wildcats play host to Kennesaw State in the first round of the Las Vegas Holiday Classic. First- and second-round games are on campus sites.
ESPN.com?s Andy Katz said by phone that Walker would be a ?huge? addition, but added, ?It doesn?t solve their point-guard issues.?
How did Walker get here? This summer it was ruled his high school eligibility had expired in the state of Ohio. The next step for him to go to a college like K-State was to accomplish at least one of these three: score at least a 21 on the ACT, finish in the top one-third of his graduating class or score at least a 2.5 or higher grade-point average in the prescribed curriculum.
?He met or exceeded admission requirements for the university,? said Bosco, adding that Walker submitted an application and was admitted to the university about two weeks ago.
?We would never have any of our student-athletes positioned for admission, practice or competition unless we first received what we considered to be an approval or authorization from our governing body (NCAA),? Weiser said.
Walker, who averaged 21.7 points and 10.7 rebounds last season for North College Hill High School, was a teammate of O.J. Mayo, who now is attending high school in Huntington, W.Va. Mayo, a 6-5 point guard and the No. 5 ranked player, also could end up at K-State.
Stay tuned on that one.
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