{"id":13131,"date":"2024-01-31T15:16:25","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T20:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=13131"},"modified":"2024-01-31T15:16:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T20:16:25","slug":"tyson-walker-makes-top-10-for-the-jerry-west-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=13131","title":{"rendered":"Tyson Walker makes top 10 for the Jerry West Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Tyson Walker made the mid-season top 10 for the Jerry West Award, given annually to the nation&#8217;s best shooting guard.<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/michigan-state-basketball-positive-jeremy-fears-jr-injury-update\/\">Michigan State<\/a>\u2019s star guard Tyson Walker has been having an excellent season this year. He has been carrying the team all year and is the Spartans&#8217; leading scorer.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the nation has taken notice to the amazing season Walker has been having, so much so that Tyson was just named to the top 10 list for the Jerry West Award.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WestAward?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WestAward<\/a> Top 10 from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hoophall?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@HoopHall<\/a> has been announced \ud83d\udc4f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Hb4fENhGCR\">pic.twitter.com\/Hb4fENhGCR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCAA March Madness (@MarchMadnessMBB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarchMadnessMBB\/status\/1752399505641587037?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 30, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Jerry West Award goes to the best shooting guard in the country at the end of the season. Tyson has been tied to the Naismith Award which goes to the best overall player as well, so it\u2019s no surprise to see him on this list as well.<\/p>\n<p>This top 10 list is full of extremely good players. Many of these other players listed are having equally great if not better seasons than Tyson. So Walker\u2019s going to need a historic finish to the season if he\u2019s going to win this award.<\/p>\n<h3>Tyson Walker chasing history<\/h3>\n<p>So far this season, Walker is averaging 18.9 points, 3.1 assists, and 2.6 rebounds per game. Those 18.9 points per game are very significant for many reasons, but none more than the what Tyson is chasing. <a href=\"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/tyson-walker-is-on-pace-feat-first-time-since-1995\/\">No Spartan has averaged 20 points per game<\/a> since <a href=\"https:\/\/msuspartans.com\/honors\/hall-of-fame\/shawn-respert\/96\">Shawn Respert <\/a>in 1995. So if Tyson can increase that average just a little he could do something for the first time in nearly 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the only program record Tyson is chasing, however. He is also just two games away from tying a record held by <a href=\"https:\/\/msuspartans.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/kalin-lucas\/617\">Kalin Lucas<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/tyson-walker-is-6-games-away-from-making-program-history\/\">most consecutive double-digit scoring games<\/a>. Lucas\u2019 record is 33 and Tyson currently sits at 31 straight games. So Walker is just a few games away from setting this record.<\/p>\n<p>Now I\u2019m not sure if Walker can win the Jerry West Award, but these two program records are well within reach. Obviously the team\u2019s success comes first, but these are two fun things to cheer for on the side as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well deserved recognition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":13229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[190,189,504,202],"class_list":["post-13131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","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\/13131","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=13131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}