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Inside the Nationwide, Fraternity-Like Bond of College Basketball Walk-Ons

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Why Google a question perhaps the country’s greatest group text can instantaneously answer?

“Joey Smoke,” Rem Bakamus pinged all 16 numbers. “Is it your Senior Night?” Moments later, Joey Lane, the first preferred walk-on in the history of Ohio State basketball, responded, confirming the Buckeyes’ final home game of the season was Sunday, March 10.

“I’m going,” Jake Lorbach, a former OSU walk-on himself, declared. “I think I’m behind the bench.