Kent State guard Jaylin Walker thought he was on pace to win the Mid-American Conference’s Freshman of the Year award last season before being forced to miss 10 games late in the year due to a foot injury.
But this season, Walker’s foot has been “100 percent” of late and, after working on his shot this week in practice, he felt a big game coming on.
Early in Saturday’s contest against New Jersey Institute of Technology, the sophomore converted an alley-oop dunk on a pass from Kevin Zabo, the first time head coach Rob Senderoff elected to run the play this season.