Illini Basketball 2026-2027

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If Andre reverts to his shooting percentage of his first two years in college (~30%) he will be a bigger offensive weapon. To me, his biggest potential area of offensive improvement will be maintaining court awareness on his drives and finding the open man instead of going 1 on 3 in the paint leading to turnovers. This would really improve his draft stock as well.

Two big areas for improvement:

— can’t be a negative AST to TOV guy; 0.8 last year (anything under 1 counts as negative).

— has to become at least a 30% 3pt shooter; 24.4% last year.

If he can do both, on top of what he can do defensively, that’s the best two-way star in the big ten (maybe the country).

 

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While we’re at it, points per 100 possessions last season:

Stojakovic — 31.2
Mirkovic — 27.6
Vaaks — 27.8 (on an awful team)

I do think Stojakovic has the leg up here (as of today).

His 3pt% should also increase.

Stojakovic’s 31.2 points per 100 possessions was the 6th highest in a season with Brad at the helm:

#1 — 2022 Kofi at 40.1
#2 — 2024 TSJ at 38.7
#3 — 2021 Kofi at 36.8
#4 — 2018 Leron Black at 33.9
#5 — 2021 Ayo at 32.2
#5 — 2026 Keaton at 32.2
#6 — 2026 Andrej at 31.2

With a little improvement from 3 next year, he could absolutely enter the 32+ club.

He had one of the better scoring seasons we’ve seen recently; just went unnoticed due to scoring “only” 13.5 per game. Reason for that was just playing 26.3 minutes due to health.

 

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Stojakovic’s 31.2 points per 100 possessions was the 6th highest in a season with Brad at the helm:

#1 — 2022 Kofi at 40.1
#2 — 2024 TSJ at 38.7
#3 — 2021 Kofi at 36.8
#4 — 2018 Leron Black at 33.9
#5 — 2021 Ayo at 32.2
#5 — 2026 Keaton at 32.2
#6 — 2026 Andrej at 31.2

With a little improvement from 3 next year, he could absolutely enter the 32+ club.

He had one of the better scoring seasons we’ve seen recently; just went unnoticed due to scoring “only” 13.5 per game. Reason for that was just playing 26.3 minutes due to health.

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Stojakovic’s 31.2 points per 100 possessions was the 6th highest in a season with Brad at the helm:

#1 — 2022 Kofi at 40.1
#2 — 2024 TSJ at 38.7
#3 — 2021 Kofi at 36.8
#4 — 2018 Leron Black at 33.9
#5 — 2021 Ayo at 32.2
#5 — 2026 Keaton at 32.2
#6 — 2026 Andrej at 31.2

With a little improvement from 3 next year, he could absolutely enter the 32+ club.

He had one of the better scoring seasons we’ve seen recently; just went unnoticed due to scoring “only” 13.5 per game. Reason for that was just playing 26.3 minutes due to health.

I don’t think his lesser minutes was all injury. In games he was healthy, he would rarely get 30 or more minutes.

Next year, he was probably guaranteed more minutes and a bigger role.