Jonathan Wallace hasn’t spent much time on the bench during his basketball career at Georgetown, starting every game during his four years with the Hoyas.

He will spend his professional life approaching the bench, however, as the senior guard has been accepted to the prestigious Georgetown School of Law and will make his career as an attorney.

Wallace arrived in Washington, D.C. as a walk-on for a Georgetown program that had been struggling in recent years. He has helped the program return to its mark as a national power, leading the Hoyas to the Final Four last season and a top 10 ranking this year.

While Wallace will wait until the end of the season to determine if he will pursue professional basketball before attending law school, he isn’t rushing anything. First, he wants to achieve something most lawyers never get a chance to – a national championship.

Wallace was the subject of this week’s Campus Connection, a recurring podcast on the Double-A Zone, the official blog of the NCAA.

Excerpts from the podcast are included below. To listen to the entire conversation, click here. Read the blog post here.

Q:Georgetown basketball has traditionally been one of the nation’s powers, but it went through a bit of a downswing. Now it’s back on the up. Does the senior class take a lot of pride in that?

A: We do. When we came in, there were a lot of responsibilities placed on our shoulders and from that day forward, we decided to take each season and try to progress a little bit more in order to get to the goals that we want to reach.

Q:Can you explain the importance academics have to you personally?

A: It creates a balance in your lifestyle. You use basketball as a platform to get to other stages in your life and hopefully be successful. I took the opportunity from basketball to allow me to get to those points.

Q:When did you decide the law was something that interested you?

A: Back in high school. It was something that always interested in me and I read up a little bit on the field. From that day forward, I worked different avenues to prepare myself to eventually go to law school.

Q:There are a lot of kids who watch all your games and really idolize you. What advice would you give to them as they look forward to a potential college career, whether it’s in basketball or not in athletics?

A: Just to realize that everything you do is a process and in order for you to reach certain levels that you want to, it starts with your work ethic and discipline. How hard you work and staying consistent in what you do, in most cases, will tend to land you where you want to be.