Matt Walker stepped onto the University of Wisconsin-River Falls campus in 2011 as a newly-hired, 33-year-old head coach with secret ambitions that, at the time, would have been best described as insane.

He thought the Falcons could win a national championship.

At River Falls? The school lacking the resources of the private schools to its West and the student enrollment of the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference competitors to its East. The program that hadn’t been to the Division-III playoffs since the mid-1990s and won one game prior to the new coach’s arrival.

Walker thought he could win big … here?

“I honestly wouldn’t have taken the job if I didn’t think we had a shot to do it,” he said this week. “I had some options (for jobs). I was in a nice spot to be picky and choos

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