Good News: Igor Milicic Jr. has officially signed with Tennessee for a $60 million, three-year contract.

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KNOXVILLE, Tennessee – Rick Barnes, the head men’s basketball coach at the University of Tennessee, revealed on Thursday that he has signed forward Igor Miličić Jr., a transfer from Charlotte.

In 2024–25, the 2023–24 Third Team All-AAC honoree will play his last collegiate season with the Volunteers.

“We are happy that Igor has chosen to become a Volunteer. Barnes stated, “He is a gifted player who has benefited from outstanding coaching throughout his career, both in college and in Europe. One of the best coaches he has had is his father, Igor Sr. We believe Igor’s strong, distinctive, and well-honed skill set will translate well to the SEC. He is a versatile competitor. He has a lot of potential and is a fantastic defensive rebounder and 3-point shooter. Igor has priceless

experience on the international level with the Polish National Team and he has improved every year as a collegian. We feel he will fit in well at Tennessee, both on and off the court.”

Coming to Rocky Top after two years at Charlotte and one at Virginia, Miličić is a 6-foot-10, 225-pound player. In 82 games, 52 of which were starts, he has averaged 5.5 rebounds and 8.5 points per game in his career.

Throughout his career, Miličić has shot 47.6% from the field, including an impressive 35.8% from beyond the arc. 31 times has he scored in double figures; 15 times he has scored 15 points or more, and 4 times he has scored 20 points or more. He has also recorded 11 double-doubles and 14 double-digit rebounding games.

Having played in 31 games, 30 of which he started, Rovinj, Croatia native Miličić finished 2023–24 with the finest season of his career, averaging 12.8 points, 8.5 rebounds, 1.7 assists, and 1.1 blocks.

beginning. He shot a solid 48.7 percent from the field, including 37.6 percent on 4.8 3-point attempts per game, and 81.8 percent at the free-throw line. Twenty of Miličic’s double-figure scoring performances occurred in 2023–24, including three of his four 20-point games and 12 of his 15-point outings. On March 6, 2024, against Rice, he scored a career-high 26 points on 7–of-11 shooting, adding 10 rebounds in the victory.

All but two of Miličic’s double-digit rebounding totals and all but one of his collegiate double-doubles occurred during his junior year with the 49ers. He made 17 three-pointers in a row, including nine three-plus attempts. His performance helped Charlotte place third with a 19-12 record, which included a 13-5 record in AAC play.

In St. Augustine, Florida on November 20, 2023, Miličic recorded a double-double with eighteen points and ten rebounds versus UCF, a Big 12 institution. Nineteen days later, he scored eight points, pulled down six rebounds, and blocked four shots while playing at Duke. He was one of just seven players, along with Virginia’s Ryan Dunn, to block four shots against the Blue Devils in 2023–24. He was also one of only two to do so in Durham, North Carolina. Throughout the previous four seasons,

Only two non-Power Six players have reached that milestone versus Duke (Miličic, 2020–24; Seny N’diaye, USC Upstate, Nov. 11, 2022) more than a year earlier.

Miličic finished fourth in the AAC in 2023–24 with 12 double-doubles. At 7.0 defensive rebounds per game, he was No. 23 overall and second in the league. Miličic also placed fourth in the AAC in terms of rebounds, sixth in terms of free-throw %, ninth in terms of blocks per game, tenth in terms of 3-point percentage, fifteenth in terms of field-goal percentage, and fifteenth in terms of minutes average (32.21).

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