Wally Walker is the only Cavalier to receive the Everett Case Award as the ACC Tournament's Most Valuable Player.

A prolific frontcourt scorer, "Wonderful" Wally Walker led Virginia to its only Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament championship and its first NCAA Tournament berth in 1976.

He is the only Cavalier to receive the Everett Case Award as the ACC Tournament's Most Valuable Player following Virginia's upset of three nationally-ranked teams en route to the ACC title. Enjoying one of the finest individual seasons ever by a Cavalier cager during the 1975-76 season, Walker scored 21 points and grabbed seven rebounds in the 1976 tournament championship game against North Carolina.

Walker's scoring average of 22.1 points during the 1975-76 season ranks as the sixth best in UVa history and his 1,849 career points is sixth on the all-time Cavalier list. His number 41 was retired by Virginia.

Walker was the fifth player chosen in the 1976 NBA draft, taken by the Portland Trail Blazers. He was a reserve forward for the 1977 Portland World Championship team and, the following year, was traded to the Seattle SuperSonics, who won the 1978 NBA title. Walker was then traded to Houston where he teamed with another former Cavalier, Ralph Sampson.

Following his pro basketball career, Walker attended graduate business school at Stanford, worked for Goldman, Sachs & Company in San Francisco and started his own financial investment company. He returned to the NBA in 1994, becoming president and general manager of the SuperSonics. Walker is currently the chief executive officer of the SuperSonics.

In March of 2001, Walker was one of five former collegiate players named to the 2001 Hillyard Silver Anniversary All-America basketball team, as selected by the National Association of Basketball Coaches. Walker was joined on the team by Quinn Buckner (Indiana), John Lucas (Maryland), Ron Lee (Oregon) and Phil Sellers (Rutgers).

Walker received an NCAA Silver Anniversary Award in January of 2001.

Walker's Career Statistics

Year	G	FGM-FGA	FG%	FTM-FTA	FT%	Reb-Avg	Pts-Avg
1972-73	23	139-247	.563	38-48	.792	156-6.8	316-13.7
1973-74	26	199-404	.493	58-70	.829	170-6.5	456-17.5
1974-75	25	179-374	.479	55-66	.833	136-5.4	413-16.5
1975-76	30	262-478	.548	140-186	.753	203-6.8	664-22.1
Career	104	779-1503	.518	291-370	.786	665-6.4	1849-17.8