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5-star C Will Baker names Texas as a finalist

Only four schools remain in the mix with elite Austin Westlake center Will Baker.

On Wednesday, the local five-star prospect announced his final four schools and the Texas Longhorns unsurprisingly survived the cut.

Baker named UCLA, Stanford, and Georgetown as his other finalists.

I would like to thank all of the programs and their coaching staffs who have spent time recruiting me, but I have chosen to narrow my list. I have decided to focus on the following four schoolsu203cufe0f@TiptonEdits pic.twitter.com/PRQeQkFJmY

— Will Baker (@thrillbaker) August 29, 2018

Arguably Shaka Smart’s top overall target this cycle, Baker’s first documented offer arrived from the Longhorns in January 2017, and throughout the past 20 months, he’s received multiple visits from Smart and his staff, in addition to an unofficial visit on Feb.