With just days until the Illinois basketball opens its 2025-2026 season at home vs. Jackson State, the Fighting Illini got some long-awaited news.

One of their prized offseason acquisitions is eligible to play this season.

What we know:

Serbian point guard Mihailo Petrovic has been cleared for the 2025-26 college basketball season, the school announced on Monday.

In a release, Illinois said Petrovic was cleared after the completion of a review with the NCAA Eligibility Center. This follows a similar timeline that fellow Illini player Tommy Ivisic had last season. Ivisic was cleared on Oct. 31, 2024, just days before the season began.

Petrovic is classified as a sophomore with three years of eligibility remaining. He committed to Illinois this offseason after spending the 2024-25 campa

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