Illini Basketball 2026-2027

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PleaseMakeABowlGame
Fly Illini Fly! said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/2087902426061816107

“1. David Mirkovic, Illinois​

In addition to being arguably the sport’s most entertaining personality, Mirkovic is also an incredible talent coming off a monster freshman season. He has a unique skill set offensively, capable of being deployed as a jumbo ballhandler who can create for others, dribble into post-ups and hunt mismatches all over the floor. And buzz out of Champaign is that he has made a massive jump this spring and summer, with Illinois planning to use him as its primary offensive engine at times.”
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His rankings have been a bit strange.

He left Andrej Stojakovic off the top 10 Small Forwards.

But the weirdest part is that when he first released the top 10 Point Guards, the list had Vaaks at #8. Then he changed it, and Vaaks is nowhere mentioned in the article. Wonder what that was about?
 
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NarrowJ
PleaseMakeABowlGame said:
I think for the coaching staff it was always Wagler.

For the outsiders, it was Petrovic.
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I just posted video commentary re: an October 25th, 2025 press conference from Brad stating that Keaton would be the backup point guard. Though it was said he'd be backing up Kylan, not Mihailo (though as RollChief says, this was after Mihailo had the injury).
 
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HoopsterMan
PleaseMakeABowlGame said:
His rankings have been a bit strange.

He left Andrej Stojakovic off the top 10 Small Forwards.

But the weirdest part is that when he first released the top 10 Point Guards, the list had Vaaks at #8. Then he changed it, and Vaaks is nowhere mentioned in the article. Wonder what that was about?
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You wonder how much effort the author puts into these, or if they're just pushing these out for content's sake. Jamie Shaw of on3 posted his best sophomore list the other day and he had junior Pat Ngongba on it, then scrubbed it off later.
 
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