Why Basehor-Linwood’s Trevor McBride joined Wichita State basketball team as a walk-on
Basehor-Linwood High School standout Trevor McBride is joining the Wichita State men’s basketball team for the 2022-23 season as a preferred walk-on, he announced on his social media accounts Wednesday.
McBride is a 6-foot-1 point guard who averaged 11.0 points, 3.5 rebounds, 4.8 assists and 1.8 steals per game and helped lead Basehor-Linwood to a 19-3 record this past season.
He joins another Kansas high school basketball standout, Kapaun Mt. Carmel’s Henry Thengvall, as an incoming preferred walk-on with the Shockers. McBride’s announcement also coincided on the same day as Steele Gaston-Chapman, the former Campus standout who redshirted this past season while being a walk-on at WSU, entered the transfer portal.
“It’s always been a dream to play Division 1 basketball since I was young,” McBride told The Eagle. “But really, I want to get into business and their business school is really good. So the opportunity with basketball plus that out-weighed the chance to play at a juco.”
McBride, who sported a 5.1 assist-to-turnover ratio and finished his career as Basehor-Linwood’s all-time leader in assists, felt like he had the ability to play at the Division 2 level, but said his weight (160 pounds) limited his interest. He was being recruited by mostly Kansas junior colleges, where he was planning on going to put on weight and try to improve his recruiting options in two years before the WSU offer came along.
WSU has long had its eye on McBride for the role, as player development coach Nick Jones invited the Basehor-Linwood senior to attend the South Alabama game at Koch Arena back on Nov. 13
The deal was sealed when McBride drove to Wichita for a work-out at Koch Arena on Monday. After meeting with the WSU coaching staff, McBride was thrilled to receive the offer to join the team.
“I’m a natural point guard,” McBride said. “I can score when I have to, but at the high school level in Kansas, with no shot clock, I basically just drew two defenders and found the open man. We had a really good team this year and my teammates hit a lot of shots.”
McBride will bring a winning mentality to the scout team in practices. During his time with the Bobcats, they reached the state championship game and also made it to the Class 5A semifinals in 2020 before the coronavirus pandemic wiped out the state tournament. He finished his career as an all-state in Class 5A with the third-most wins in program history.
“I feel like I’ve always been a winner,” McBride said. “I want to help the team win and get good looks in practice. They want me to kind of lead the scout team and I want to get the people who are playing the kind of looks they would be getting in a game. I just want to do whatever I can to help my team win.”
This story was originally published April 20, 2022 at 6:09 PM.
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