DOVER, Delaware — Four years ago, the doors to a conference room on the fifth floor of Delaware State University’s Administration Building flew open and through them came Keith Walker.The big reveal at that 2014 press conference to name a new head basketball coach was kept a secret from most. Even the players were not aware of who their coach was going to be until Walker walked through those doors.
Despite being kept in the dark, there was a palpable level of excitement among the players in the room.
Walker was who the players pushed for to be their head coach. He was the interim coach for the final 10 games of the 2014 season and what he did for the team’s morale was one of the main reasons he was given the full-time position.
“What Coach was able to do was to take all of that energy, turn it around and create our dreams again,” said DSU’s athletic director at the time, Candy Young. “We were able to live again. We were able to breathe again. We had a team that we were excited about again.”
And that proved true in Walker’s first year as Delaware State rode a senior-laden team to the MEAC Tournament championship game, finishing one win shy of an NCAA Tournament berth.
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