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Tokoto played college basketball at North Carolina from 2012–2015, appearing for the Tar Heels as a freshman in 2012-13 and continuing through his junior season in 2014-15 under head coach Roy Williams.

Across 107 games at UNC, Tokoto totaled 722 points (6.7 per game), 469 rebounds (4.4 per game), 292 assists, and 128 steals, scoring in double figures 33 times and hitting 21 career three-pointers, including 12 threes in 2014-15 alone.

In the 2012-13 season, Tokoto appeared in 35 games and did not start, averaging 2.6 points and 1.7 rebounds per game, and he missed the March 3 game against Florida State due to a bruised right wrist.

As a freshman, he matched his season high with 10 points at NC State and set a season high with three assists in that same game, scored 10 points on 5-for-5 shooting against East Carolina, posted a season-high four steals in 12 minutes against Miami, played a season-high 19 minutes at Texas and pulled down a season-high six rebounds, and had five points and two steals at Indiana against a top-ranked opponent.

Tokoto’s role expanded sharply in 2013-14, when he became a regular starter and earned ACC All-Defensive Team honours as selected by both the media and the league’s head coaches, while also leading North Carolina with 55 steals and ranking second on the team with 103 assists.

In that 2013-14 season, he averaged 9.3 points and 5.8 rebounds per game with 3.1 assists per game, recorded 16 double-figure scoring games and three double-doubles (against Michigan State, Davidson, and NC State), and produced his season scoring high with 22 points in an overtime win over Davidson that also included 11 rebounds, four blocks, and five steals.

During the 2013-14 season’s key moments, Tokoto delivered his first career double-double at No. 1 Michigan State with 12 points and 10 rebounds, scored 16 points with 10 rebounds and five assists in a win at NC State, went 5-for-5 from the field in a 63–61 win over Notre Dame, and had nine rebounds, four steals, and a career-high six assists against Maryland.

In 2013-14, North Carolina finished 24–10 and reached the NCAA Tournament as a No. 6 seed, beating Providence 79–77 in the Second Round before falling 85–83 to Iowa State in the Third Round.

In the 2014-15 season, Tokoto ranked among the ACC leaders as a playmaking forward, finishing sixth in the conference in assists, eighth in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.9), and ninth in steals, while also being the only forward to place in the ACC’s top 10 in assists and one of the league’s few players to rank top 10 in both assists and steals despite not being a point guard.

As a junior, he finished second on UNC with 163 assists and 56 steals, logged 29.1 minutes per game, had five or more assists 15 times, and posted 10 assists against Robert Morris, which was the first time a North Carolina forward recorded 10 assists in a game since 2000.

Tokoto’s 2014-15 game highs included 19 points and 10 rebounds against William & Mary (tying his season scoring high and setting his season rebounding high), 19 points with eight assists against East Carolina while going 5-for-5 at the free throw line, and a 15-point, eight-rebound, seven-assist performance with no turnovers at Duke that also included three steals and two blocks in 37 minutes.

Late in 2014-15, Tokoto produced key all-around stat lines in postseason play, including 13 points and eight assists with no turnovers against Arkansas, and seven assists, six rebounds, four steals, and only one turnover in the ACC championship game against Notre Dame, while North Carolina went 11–4 in games where he scored in double figures.

Tokoto improved his free-throw shooting as a junior, lifting his percentage after shooting .476 across his first two seasons to 61.5% in 2014-15, and he also connected on multiple three-pointers in a game for the first time against UCLA during the season, when he scored 10 points with four steals in that win.

AWARDS

- 1x All-NBL Second Team
- 1x NBL Steals Leader