He’s a Class of 2026 wing prospect with experience playing for Australia’s junior national teams.
On Wednesday, Class of 2026 prospect Nash Walker announced his commitment to Marquette men’s basketball.
Nash Walker on Instagram
Awesome, great pick up, outstanding work by MU head coach Shaka Smart and his coaching staff.
Who the hell is Nash Walker?
Luckily, someone at the McGuire Center tipped off Ben Steele at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, so we can ride off Ben’s coattails here a little bit to learn a thing or two about Walker. For example: He’s a 6’6” lefty and he’s coming from the same NBA Global Academy that produced current Marquette big man Ben Gold.
Walker, who hails from Tasmania, has competed for Australia’s junior national teams. He played for the Boomers at the just-competed FIBA U19 World Cup, though he didn’t see much playing time over five games as one of the younger players.
He has a reputation for being a lights-out shooter, and was a key player on Australia’s U17 team last year. Over 13 games in 2024 with the Boomers, he shot 17 for 49 (34.6%) on three-pointers.
Walker does have a 247 Sports page, but no ratings or rankings at the moment. He also has an NBADraft.net page, which might be because of his time with the Australian U17 team. If you’re good enough to play on that national team, you might be good enough to be drafted in a year’s time, I suppose.
Can I interest you in 60 seconds of highlights of Walker absolutely killing a team in NBL1, which is a semipro league run by the NBL in Australia?
How about 80 seconds from the U18 Asia Cup?
How about over 3 minutes from a U17 event in 2023?
And now, the scholarship chart.
The commitment of Nash Walker gives Marquette two wing/perimeter guys in the Class of 2026, as Ethan Johnston is 6’6” and 185 pounds. Sheek Pearson projects as a big man at the college level with 247 Sports already listing him at 6’11”, so that means that MU is pretty covered on backfilling the rotation after this coming season when Ben Gold and Chase Ross run out of eligibility. The Golden Eagles are going into 2025-26 with two open roster spots, and so they currently project to have one open spot still left available for the start of 2026-27. I would wager that means that Shaka Smart is actually done recruiting for that season now, as there’s a certain logic to leaving one of your 15 spots always open juuuuuuust in case.
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