When Brevin Walter plays his first game during the 2024-2025 season, he will rank among the top active scorers in NCAA basketball. At the end of his fourth collegiate season and first campaign with CSU Pueblo, Walter ranked 148th among the active NCAA scoring leaders (No. 5 among Colorado collegiate players) with 1,696 points (17.1 average) in 99 games (90 starts).
CSU Pueblo (2023-present) – Despite missing the first four games of the season, Walter led the ThunderWolves in scoring average (17.3) and was No. 2 in total points (432). He was the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference’s sixth-leading scorer and earned honorable mention all-league honors. By only missing 13 of 120 free throw attempts, Walter’s 89.2 percentage ranked first in the RMAC and 14th in NCAA Division II. He is also a recipient of the Harry Simmons Memorial Scholarship, which was created in 1992 to honor a coach and administrator at the school from 1945 through 1980.
South Dakota Mines (2019-2023) – After redshirting his first season (2019-2020) with the Hardrockers, Walter played in 74 career games (68 starts), where he averaged 17.1 points, 4.2 rebounds, and 1.8 assists per game while making 81.1 percent of his free throws. SD Mines’ second-leading scorer as a redshirt freshman (12.3 points per game, 2020-21), Walter was the leading Hardrocker point producer the next two seasons by averaging 16.9 (2021-2022) and 20.3 (2022-2023) points per game. Walter was a second-team All-RMAC performer for the 2022-2023 season after earning honorable mention recognition in 2021-2022. He set a SD Mines school single-game scoring record with 45 points against MSU Denver on December 10, 2022. His 1,264 Hardrocker points are listed 16th in the school’s record book. He reached the 1,000-point plateau with a 26-point effort at Adams State on December 31, 2022. He had two double-doubles at Mines.
High School – A graduate of Faith Lutheran in Las Vegas, Nev., Walter was a team captain as a senior on a 17-9 team. He earned all-conference, all-state, and all-American (Big Baller Brand and McDonald’s) recognition after averaging 18.8 points, 4.7 rebounds, 3.2 assists, and 1.5 steals per game. Walter scored over 1,000 points in his high school career.
Personal – Walter was born March 28, 2001, in Las Vegas. Walker has an engineering degree from South Dakota Mines and is completing his master’s degree in engineering at CSU Pueblo. He married Sydney Crites, who played volleyball at South Dakota Mines and is now a chemical engineer at Estes Energetics in Penrose, Colo., on June 9, 2024. His parents are Bret and Stacey Walter. His father is now the Chief Advancement Officer in the Lutheran Education Association of Houston. His mother is the Head of School at one of the schools in the association called West Lake Lutheran Academy, and they are trying to start a high school there. His brother Rylan is a student at South Dakota Mines, where he is a quarterback on the football team.
