Charlotte move Igor Milicic Jr. has focused on Tennessee b-ball over Nebraska and Baylor, GoVols247 affirmed on Monday morning.
Milicic Jr. was in Knoxville a little more than two weeks prior for an authority visit with the Vols following a visit to Nebraska. He left Tennessee to visit Baylor prior to coming to a ultimate conclusion.
The 6-foot-10 forward is the third exchange to focus on Tennessee this offseason. Hofstra wing Darlinstone Dubar was quick to focus on the Vols following an authority visit and Ohio State focus Felix Okpara reported his choice before the end of last week.
Milicic Jr. acquired All-AAC Third Group respects this previous season in the wake of beginning 30 of the 31 games he showed up in to average 12.8 focuses per game, 8.5 bounce back, 1.7 helps, 1.1 blocks, and 0.7 takes. As well as being the group’s second-driving scorer and top rebounder, Milicic Jr. was fourth in The American in bounce back per game, as he positioned 23rd broadly and second in the gathering in guarded bouncing back (7.0 per game).
The Charlotte move logged a group high 10 twofold copies, scored in twofold figures in 20 games, had three 20-point exhibitions and he pulled down twofold digit bounce back multiple times, remembering a profession high 16 loads up against Sanctuary for the Quarterfinals of the 2024 AAC Competition. He drove the group in bouncing back in 22 games and he drove in scoring seven distinct times.
Milic Jr. shot 48.7% from the floor for the season and was the group’s sans top toss shooter (81.8%) and three-point shooter with 56 made three’s. His three-point rate (37.6%) positioned tenth in the AAC, yet of the nine players in front of Milicic Jr., eight of them were watchmen and none were recorded taller than 6-foot-6.
He procured a group high four week after week praises from the AAC this season. He was named Player of the Week on Nov. 20 and he was named to the honor roll multiple times (Jan. 15, Jan. 29, Walk 11).
As a sophomore in 2022-23, Milicic Jr. showed up in 35 of 36 games while making 22 beginnings in his most memorable season at Charlotte. He found the middle value of 7.7 places and 4.1 bounce back in 21.4 minutes per game.
Begun at Virginia
Milicic Jr. started his school profession at Virginia in 2021-22. He showed up in 16 games with the Cavaliers and found the middle value of 2.1 places and 0.9 bounce back, while shooting 38% from the field and 36.4% from three.
Before School
The local of Pula, Croatia graduated secondary school from ProGenius Ulm in 2021. His dad, Igor, who currently mentors in Poland where he has come out on top for numerous Clean titles, played expertly in Greece, Russia, Poland, Belgium, Croatia and Turkey.
Milicic Jr. found the middle value of 13.3 places, 5.2 bounce back and 1.8 helps while likewise shooting 44.7% from the floor and 33.3% from three out of 21 games for Orange Foundation Ratiopharm of the German Ace B association in 2020-21. He additionally saw activity in three games for Ratiopharm Ulm in Germany’s top association, the BBL. Holding double citizenship in Poland and Croatia, Milicic Jr. made his presentation with the Clean Senior Public Group in the FIBA Eurobasket qualifying window in February 2020.
Occupied Offseason
Tennessee’s season reached a conclusion on the last day in Spring when it lost to No. 1-seed Purdue, 72-66, in the World class Eight of the NCAA Competition. UT brought home its eleventh SEC Title this previous season and progressed to the Tip top Eight for simply the subsequent time in program history.
The Vols have had four players choose to enter the exchange entryway up until this point this offseason in junior forward Jonas Aidoo, sophomore forward Tobe Awaka and redshirt-green beans monitors Freddie Dilione V and DJ Jefferson. Awaka has since focused on Arizona, while Dilione declared his choice to move to Penn State and Jefferson focused on Longwood.
Tennessee will have another look next season during Rick Barnes’ tenth on Rough Top. Breakout star Dalton Knecht is headed toward the NBA in the wake of winning SEC Player of the Year during his main season in Knoxville, while watches Santiago Vescovi and Josiah-Jordan James have run out of qualification following enhanced five-year professions.
Monitors Zakai Zeigler, Jahmai Mashack, Jordan Gainey and Cameron Carr are right now expected to return next season, notwithstanding advances Cade Phillips and J.P. Estrella.
