Ohio State has filled their basketball staff with the announcement today that Grand Canyon’s Jamall Walker will join the program as an assistant coach.
Welcome to Buckeye Nation @JamallWalker‼️@JakeDiebler has announced the addition of Jamall Walker to the coaching staff as Assistant Coach. Walker comes to Columbus after spending four seasons on Bryce Drew’s staff at Grand Canyon.
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Walker comes from Grand Canyon, where he was an assistant under Bryce Drew for the past four seasons. Prior to that, Walker spent eight years at Illinois and three at Ohio University, sandwiched between one year as the director of basketball operations at Arizona. He has been lauded for
Walker was a noted point guard during his playing days at St. Louis, notching over 350 assists, which ranks in the top ten in St. Louis program history.
The Buckeyes have now added Dave Dickerson, Joel Justus and Walker to their staff, replacing Jake Diebler (promoted to head coach), Jack Owens (left for DePaul) and Brandon Bailey (left for DePaul).
Ohio State is expected to make one more move to replace Mike Netti. The leader in the clubhouse to land the position is current Baylor director of operations Luke Simons.
Dave is the founder of The Silver Bulletin. After starting his own venture, Dave wrote for Eleven Warriors for four years whilst a student at The Ohio State University. After graduating in May of 2021 with a degree in marketing, the writing bug returned and The Silver Bulletin was born.