Vaughan basketball star getting his shot in NCAA Final Four

Yorkregion.com
April 2, 2016
By Michael Hayakawa

Dinjiyl Walker would like to do something no other member of the Vaughan Secondary School Voyageurs boys’ basketball team has accomplished at the collegiate level in the United States.

The Vaughan resident wants to win an NCAA Division One Men’s championship.

A six-foot, one-inch guard, Walker will have that opportunity as a member of the Oklahoma Sooners that will take to the NRG Stadium hardwood court to face the Villanova Wildcats in the first semifinal match Saturday at 6:10 p.m.

Currently in his senior year with the Sooners and the last Canadian player remaining in the NCAA men’s tournament, Walker played with the Vaughan Secondary School Voyageurs for two seasons.

At Vaughan, Walker played with Minnesota Timberwolves’ star Andrew Wiggins and his older brother Nick, who came close to winning the NCAA title in 2013 when his Wichita State Shockers lost in the semifinal to the eventual champion Louisville Cardinals.

Walker next played at the Academy of the New Church near Philadelphia for his junior and senior seasons.

From there, he went to Iowa Western Community College in Council Bluffs, Iowa for two seasons before joining Oklahoma last year where as a junior, he played in 34 games and had a 3.3 points a game average.

This season, Walker played in 35 games and had a 3.5 points a game average while logging an average of 12.3 minutes per contest.

The winner of the Oklahoma-Villanova game will play the victor of the other semifinal featuring  the North Carolina Tar Heels and Syracuse Orangemen in the national championship game Monday at 9 p.m.