Walking on in D3 Basketball

Mwfan1921
Sun, 01 Aug 2021 17:07:26 +0000

The only way you are going to know if a coach takes non-recruited walk-ons is to ask them. It varies by school, and as gardenstgal said, by year. IME at the D3 schools with the highest level basketball there are few walk-ons. Where there are walk-ons, in many cases the coach was familiar with the player prior to coming to tryouts, there are relatively few unknowns making these teams.

Lastly, there IS significant overlap in terms of player talent in the various NCAA, NAIA, and JUCO divisions. There are student-athletes at the better NCAA D3 programs that were being recruited by DI schools (not power 5 but by conferences like the Patriot and Ivy leagues). Right now with many DI schools not needing players due to the impact of the extra covid year, very good players are falling thru to D3. Some might choose JUCOs, some might choose D2, but it is not a progression talent wise from best to worst going from D1-2-3, to JUCO.