While his stay in Bloomington will be brief, Lamar Wilkerson continues to etch his name in the IU basketball record book.
On Friday evening in West Lafayette, Wilkerson set the new program single-season record for 3-pointers made in Big Ten contests.
Wilkerson is up to 55 made threes in league games. He passed program legend Steve Alford’s 54, set in 1987, the first season the 3-point arc came into existence for college basketball. Wilkerson has made 55 of 147 attempts from long range this season in conference games. Alford made 54 of 108 threes in Big Ten games in 1987.
With 231 attempts from three overall, and 147 in conference games, Wilkerson has already set the new single-season program record for attempts in both categories.
Wilkerson needs to make 20 more threes this season to pass Alford’s overall single-season record of 107 makes from beyond the arc. He’s currently tied with Yogi Ferrell for third with 88 makes.
Alford made 107 of 202 threes in 1986-87. His 53% shooting from long range is a program record by nearly five percentage points.
Earlier this season Wilkerson broke the program’s single-game record for 3-pointers made with his 10 of 15 effort against Penn State. He also broke the Assembly Hall single-game scoring record that night with 44 points. Against Oregon he became just the fifth Indiana player with multiple 40-point games in a season.
Wilkerson’s 571 points are the 30th most by an Indiana player in a single season. He probably won’t reach Calbert Cheaney’s single-season record of 785, but Wilkerson has a good chance to produce a top-10 all-time scoring campaign with the Hoosiers.
Here is the new Indiana leaderboard for 3-pointers made in a season in Big Ten games:
1. Lamar Wilkerson, 55, 2026
2. Steve Alford, 54, 1987
3. Jay Edwards, 52, 1988
4. Yogi Ferrell, 51, 2014
5. Luke Goode, 48, 2025
5. Jay Edwards, 48, 1989
7. Yogi Ferrell, 47, 2016
8. Yogi Ferrell, 45, 2015
9. James Blackmon Jr., 43, 2017
9. A.J. Guyton, 43, 1999
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