NCAA Basketball: 10 best players from state of Michigan of last decade

9. Travis Bader – Oakland

This 6’5 guard from Okemos was no average college basketball player. Bader spent four seasons playing collegiately at Oakland, becoming one of the most intriguing weapons in the game. A great offensive player, Bader established himself as a gadget player, becoming one of the very best 3-point shooters in the history of the sport while with the Golden Grizzlies.

Bader scored nearly 2400 points in his collegiate career and a lot of it came from beyond the arc. He played in the NCAA Tournament as a freshman and had a dynamic performance in the CIT as a junior. Bader had a career-high 47 points in a win against IUPUI as a junior, hitting eleven 3-pointers in the win. He was by far the best long-range weapon in the Summit League and Horizon League during his career, and left behind quite the legacy as a sharpshooter, averaging more than 20 points a season as a junior and senior.

When he left college in 2014, Bader was the all-time leader in 3-point field goals, passed only by Fletcher Magee. He was All-Horizon First Team as a senior and led his conference in long-range shooting all four seasons. He also led his respective conferences in free throw shooting and 3-point percentage at various times and was always a revered shooter during his college days. Bader spent the next six years playing basketball professionally and is now a development coach with the Brooklyn Nets.