Baker, Van Vleet named to Lute Olson All-Decade Team

Fred Van Vleet
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Former Wichita State guards Ron Baker and Fred VanVleet were among the 25 players named Monday afternoon to the Lute Olson All-Decade Team.

The team highlights some of college basketball’s biggest stars from 2010-19 and was selected by a voting panel of 21 Division I head coaches, four athletic directors and six senior members of the College Insider staff. The Lute Olson Award, named for the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame coach, is given annually to the best player in Division I college basketball.

Baker and VanVleet, fittingly, made the team together. They shared the backcourt for four seasons and helped lead the Wichita State program to three conference titles and nine NCAA Tournament wins in four trips, including a 2013 Final Four appearance. A year later, the duo played a key role on a 2013-14 Shocker squad that logged the first 35-0 start in NCAA history and claimed the program’s first-ever No. 1 seed. 

Both were three-time first team All-Missouri Valley Conference picks and both went on to play in the NBA.