CJ Walker Two-Year Florida State
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CJ WALKER 6-1/195 GUARD INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA INDIANAPOLIS ARSENAL TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL (JASON DELANEY) FLORIDA STATE UNIVERISTY (LEONARD HAMILTON) CJ Walker’s Career Statistics Year G-GS FG-A PCT. 3FG-3FGA PCT. FT-FTA PCT. PTS.-AVG. OR DR TR-AVG. PF-D AST TO BLK STL MIN 2016-17 33-0 54-136 .397 17-56 .304 36-55 .655 161-4.9 13 33 46-1.4 55-0 44 25 2 20 414-12.5 2017-18 35-34 94-228 .412 39-110 .355 52-71 .732 279-8.0 8 81 89-2.5 84-3 85 61 5 25 813-23.2 Totals 68-34 148-364 .407 56-166 .337 88-126 .698 440-6.5 21 114 135-2.0 139-3 129 86 7 45 1227-17.9 CJ Walker’s Conference Statistics Year G-GS FG-A PCT. 3FG-3FGA PCT. FT-FTA PCT. PTS.-AVG. OR DR TR-AVG. PF-D AST TO BLK STL MIN 2016-17 18-0 27-77 .351 11-35 .314 14-26 .538 79-4.4 6 19 25-1.4 28-0 23 14 1 8 219-12.2 2017-18 18-17 52-115 .452 19-55 .345 23-34 .676 146-8.1 3 49 52-2.9 50-3 46 32 2 13 424-23.6 Totals 36-17 79-192 .411 30-90 .333 37-60 .617 225-6.3 9 68 145-4.0 78-3 69 46 3 21 643-17.9 CJ Walker’s NCAA Tournament Statistics Year G-GS FG-A PCT. 3FG-3FGA PCT. FT-FTA PCT. PTS.-AVG. OR DR TR-AVG. PF-D AST TO BLK STL MIN 2016-17 2-0 1-5 .200 0-1 .000 2-4 .500 4-2.0 0 0 0-0.0 2-0 0 1 1 0 16-8.0 2017-18 4-4 6-18 .333 3-7 .429 2-2 1.000 17-4.3 2 3 5-1.3 7-0 3 9 1 3 70-17.5 Totals 6-4 7-23 .304 3-8 .375 4-6 .667 21-3.5 2 3 5-0.8 9-0 3 10 2 3 86-14.3 ON WALKER: Announced his intentions to transfer from Florida State on March 27, 2018…chose to continue his collegiate career at Ohio State on April 8, 2018 and will begin his career as a Buckeye beginning with the 2019-20 season…he begins his career at Ohio State with two years of eligibility remaining after playing two seasons at Florida State (2017 and 2018)…concluded his academic career fully academically eligible to compete as a Division I student- athlete…a member of two NCAA Tournament teams who played in 68 games as a Seminole…started 34 career games – all of his starts as a Seminole came during the 2017-18 season…helped Florida State to an overall 49-21 record (70 percent winning percentage) and a 21-15 record (.583 winning percentage) in ACC play…Florida State was 4-2 in two NCAA Tournament appearances during his two-year career with wins over Florida Gulf Coast (March 16, 2017; 86- 80) and over Missouri (March 16, 2018; 67-54), Xavier (March 18, 2018; 75-70) and Gonzaga (March 22, 2018; 75-60) before the Seminoles fell to Michigan (March 24, 2018; 58-54) just shy of the second Final Four appearance in school history…helped the Seminoles into the national rankings in both of his seasons at Florida State…the Seminoles were ranked as high as high as No. 6 during his freshman season and tied for 16th in the final Associated Press poll of the 2016-17 season…Florida State was ranked as high as No. 19 during his sophomore season and finished his sophomore season tied for 18th nationally as ranked by the Associated Press…Florida State defeated 13 nationally ranked teams in his two seasons in the Seminoles’ lineup – seven during his freshman season (2016-17) and six more during his sophomore season (2017-18)…a heralded member of Florida State’s self–proclaimed Boom Squad that gained national recognition as one of the top bench bunches in all of college basketball…the Boom Squad was the popular nickname for the Seminoles’ players who brought high energy off of the bench and combined to score nearly 40 percent of Florida State’s points during the 2016-17 season…the Boom Squad moniker began during the team scoring report for Florida State’s game against Florida…scored in double figures three times as a freshman including 13 points vs. Illinois (Nov. 25) and in ACC play against Wake Forest (Dec. 28)…a top-three finalist for the Mr. Basketball Award as a senior in the tradition-rich state of Indiana…an All-State First-Team selection by the USA Today Newspaper in 2016…named the Player of the Year in 2016 by the Indianapolis Coaches Association…ranked as the 82nd best overall prep player, the 14th best point guard and earned a four-star rating by ESPN.com in 2016…also a four-star recruit by Scout.com…a left-hander who is a very consistent player in all aspects of his game…very effective when penetrating the defense…a 2016 Indiana All-Star by the Indianapolis Star Newspaper…totaled 16 points, eight assists and four rebounds for the Maroon Squad at the Kentucky Derby Festival All-Star Classic in a game played at Freedom Hall in Louisville…totaled zero turnovers in 25 minutes of play in the Derby Festival game…was nominated to play in the McDonald’s All-American game as a senior…a member of the Indiana Boys All-Star team which faced a team of All-Stars from the state of Kentucky in June of 2016…earned the Sixth Man of the Year Award as a member of the Boom Squad at the 2017 Florida State Basketball Honors Banquet…earned the Seminoles’ Mr. Hustle Award for the 2018 season at Florida State’s annual Honors Banquet…named to the 2017 ACC Academic Honor Roll…because of his academic success as a freshman, the Seminoles were named one of the Academic Teams of Excellence by the NABC for the 2016-17 season. AS A SOPHOMORE (2018): Averaged a career-high 8.0 points (fourth on the team), a career-high 2.4 assists (third), a career-high 2.5 rebounds (eighth) and a career-high 1.0 steal (third) as he started 34 of Florida State’s 35 games in helping the Seminoles to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1993…the Seminoles’ starting point guard in all 17 non-conference games and 17 ACC games as Florida State finished with a 23-12 overall record and a 9-9 mark in conference play…Florida State finished in a tie for eighth place in the ACC standings…a starter from the onset of the season as he started the first 28 games of his sophomore season…missed his first start in Florida State’s game at Clemson (Feb. 28) and started the final six games of the season including one in the ACC Tournament and four in the NCAA Tournament…nearly doubled his scoring average as a sophomore (8.0 ppg) as compared to his freshman season (4.9 ppg) as he scored in double figures in a career-high 11 games as compared to only three as a freshman…double figure scoring came in six ACC games including his ACC career-high of 19 points in the Seminoles’ game at Boston College (Jan. 15)…he had totaled double figure scoring in only one ACC game as a freshman…scored his career-high 24 points on a career-high 10 of 11 free throws made, three assists and a career-high four steals in Florida State’s victory at Rutgers in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge (Nov. 28)…scored seven points and pulled down a career-high five rebounds as a first-time starter in Florida State’s season-opening victory over George Washington (Nov. 14)…totaled 11 points, two rebounds and one steal in Florida State’s 90-73 victory over Colorado State in the Jamaica Classic (Nov. 19)…was his 3-point shot at the end of the victory over the Rams that gave the Seminoles the 13-point advantage thus giving Florida State the two-point margin of victory advantage over Tulane to give the Seminoles the tournament championship…totaled 12 points and three assists in Florida State’s 98-79 win over Kennesaw State in Tallahassee (Nov. 22)…totaled 17 points, five rebounds, four assists and three steals in Florida State’s victory over No. 5 Florida in Gainesville (Dec. 4)…scored 15 points, pulled down three rebounds, added six assists and three steals in Florida State’s victory over Loyola (Dec. 6)…scored 18 points on a career-high tying four 3-point field goals made in Florida State’s victory over North Carolina (Jan. 3)…scored 19 points and totaled six assists against only one turnover in 31 minutes of play at Boston College (Jan. 15)…totaled 11 points, a career-high seven assists and five rebounds in Florida State’s victory over Virginia Tech in Blacksburg (Jan. 20)…totaled 17 points, three rebounds and two assists in Florida State’s victory over Miami (Jan. 27)…scored 10 points, pulled down a career-high six rebounds and earned one steal in Florida State’s win over Louisville (Feb.