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Before his role as a key member of the UMass football team, Josh Wallace stood out for DeMatha Catholic basketball
Justin Moore laughed to himself standing in the paint.
He and the rest of his DeMatha Catholic teammates hadn’t had to play much defense yet during the 2018 WCAC basketball semifinal because Josh Wallace hounded the opposing point guard 94 feet all game.
“That was their best player in the semis. Dude could not get the ball across half. He was struggling to get the team in their spots, and that was their best player,” said Moore, now a senior on the Villanova basketball team. “We’re all sitting back in the paint watching like ‘oh my god. He’s up in that.’ It made it so much easier for us.”
That’s UMass football’s junior cornerback Josh Wallace, to be clear. His movements backpedaling and shadowing his mark almost mirrored the way he covers receivers for the Minutemen.
“At corner it’s like when you’re guarding someone at the top of the key,” Wallace said. “You just want to create angles for them, you don’t want them to go around you.”
He spent his final two years of high school at one of the nation’s premier basketball powerhouses — DeMatha Catholic in Hyattsville, Md. The Stags went 64-10 during his tenure and captured the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference Championship when he was a junior, one of the most challenging high school basketball conferences in the nation. Moore was one of the top 100 players in the nation. Center Hunter Dickinson played at Michigan. Jahmir Young Jr. started at Charlotte before transferring to Maryland. Earl Timberlake Jr. began at Memphis before moving to Bryant.
Read more here: https://www.gazettenet.com/UMass-football-corner-Josh-Wallace-past-life-point-guard-Dematha-Catholic-basketball-48237611
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