Nebraska bball gets recruit

[Benard]

Marcus Walker, a highly rated point guard from Kansas City, has signed a national letter-of-intent to join the Nebraska basketball team and attend the University of Nebraska starting in 2005-06, NU Coach Barry Collier announced Tuesday night.

 

 

Walker, who has a four-star ranking and is listed among the top 25 point guards nationally by theinsiders.com, joins a group of four future Huskers who signed letters-of-intent last week, including Will Harris, Jamel White, Chris Balham and Kyle Marks. The quartet that signed last week was already ranked among the top 35 recruiting classes nationally, and the addition of Walker puts the Huskers in position to crack the top 25 when the final rankings are compiled in the spring. Nebraska still has one scholarship remaining to fill for next year.

 

 

"We’re excited to have Marcus Walker joining our team next season," Collier said. "He has great skills as both a point guard and scorer, and is a great addition to what we believe is shaping up to be a very good recruiting class."

 

 

A top-150 recruit according to hoopmasters.com, Walker will join the Huskers after ending a stellar career at Archbishop O’Hara High School in Kansas City this winter. Playing for coach Todd Magwire, the 6-2, 165-pound Walker has been one of the top scoring guards in the state of Missouri each of the past three seasons and has a chance to break the metro area scoring record set by Anthony Peeler (2,477 in 1988) and move onto the state’s all-time top 25 scorers list. Walker enters the season with 1,818 career points and owns the school records for single-season scoring (754 points) and single-game scoring (54).

 

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