Tyson Walker<\/a> is having one of the best individual years in Michigan State basketball<\/a> history. So far this season, Tyson is averaging 20 points, 2.9 assists, and 2.9 rebounds per game. Tyson finished with 21 points against Minnesota on Thursday night, which extends his streak of double digit scoring games to 29. He is now only five games away from setting the Michigan State program record for the most consecutive double-digit scoring games<\/a>.<\/p>\n This, however, isn\u2019t the only record that Walker is on pace to break this year.<\/p>\n Michigan State has had a lot of great players throughout its history. The Spartans have also had many elite scorers as well. But Tyson Walker is on pace to do something that no Spartan has accomplished since 1995.<\/p>\n After his 21-point performance Thursday against Minnesota, that brought Tyson\u2019s average up to exactly 20 points per game. This puts Tyson on pace to be the first Spartan to average 20-plus points per game in a single season since Shawn Respert<\/a> who played in the mid-1990s, actually accomplished this feat three seasons in a row, between 1993-1995.<\/p>\n I, for one, am a little surprised to see that no Spartan has been able to accomplish this since Respert. A few have come close, with the closest being Denzel Valentine<\/a> who finished with 19.2 points per game during his senior season in 2015-16.<\/p>\n Cassisus Winston<\/a> was also close as a junior and senior. He finished those seasons with 18.8 and 18.6 points per game, respectively. One player who I thought might have been a little closer is Miles Bridges<\/a>. He finished \u00a0with 16.9 and 17.1 points per game in his two seasons.<\/p>\n The obvious answer is yes. It won\u2019t be easy as Walker has had a few games recently in which he hasn\u2019t hit the 20-point mark. But one thing in Tyson\u2019s favor is that his \u201coff\u201d games really aren\u2019t bad.<\/p>\n He\u2019s scored in double figures every game this year, so even if he has an “off night” it shouldn\u2019t decrease his average too much. Walker does need to get a little breathing room, so a few games scoring in the mid-20s would help a lot.<\/p>\n I know this accomplishment comes second to the team\u2019s success, but this will be a fun thing to watch as the season progresses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tyson Walker is on pace to do something that hasn’t been done in nearly 30 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":12336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[59,190,189,504,202],"class_list":["post-12290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","tag-featured","tag-michigan-state-basketball","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-news","tag-tyson-walker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Averaging 20+ points per game<\/h3>\n
Many Spartans have been close<\/h3>\n
Can Tyson Walker do it?<\/h3>\n