Former Stanford, Cal star Stojakovic heads to the Big Ten

Cal and Stanford didn’t get into the Big Ten in 2023’s Great Reshuffling of college sports, but that isn’t stopping their athletes from moving into a top-tier league.

Andrej Stojakovic, the star guard who transferred from Stanford to Cal in 2024, is leaving Berkeley for Illinois. He reportedly considered returning to Stanford in the transfer portal, and North Carolina was also deemed a finalist in his quasi-free agency in the name, image and likeness era.

Stojakovic, a 6-foot-7 rising junior...