Kerwin Walton's teammates weren't optimistic about this story.
After each conversation with a member of the freshman class, we'd ask them off the record who would be the toughest of their classmates to interview. Kerwin Walton, a 6-foot-5 freshman from Hopkins, Minnesota, was the unanimous winner.
There were two consistently uniform opinions on Walton from his fellow freshmen: Walton doesn't talk, and Walton can really shoot the basketball.
The latter was easily verifiable. On one day last month, Walton made 133 straight free throws before he left the Smith Center.