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Kentucky basketball forward Andrija Jelavic enters transfer portal<\/h1>\n

LEXINGTON \u2014\u00a0Andrija Jelavic\u0301<\/a>\u00a0could be on the move after one season with\u00a0Kentucky basketball<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 6-foot-11 Croatian forward, a rising junior, entered the transfer portal Tuesday, as confirmed by USA TODAY Sports. Jelavic\u0301 is the fifth player to transfer since\u00a0Kentucky<\/a>‘s 2025-26 campaign concluded, joining fellow forwards\u00a0Mouhamed Dioubate<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Brandon Garrison<\/a>\u00a0along with guards\u00a0Jasper Johnson<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Jaland Lowe<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jelavic\u0301 told Kentucky Sports Radio<\/a>\u00a0on Tuesday he was “leaving the door open for a possible return” to UK.<\/p>\n

While his final numbers weren’t eye-popping \u2014 Jelavic\u0301 averaged 5.5 points and 4 rebounds in 15.6 minutes per game \u2014 the big man established himself as a starter for coach\u00a0Mark Pope<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0Wildcats<\/a>\u00a0in the last two months of the 2025-26 season. Jelavic\u0301 started Kentucky’s final 20 games.<\/p>\n

That he developed into a mainstay of the lineup represented a remarkable turnaround.<\/p>\n

During a five-game stretch beginning with\u00a0Indiana<\/a>\u00a0(on Dec. 13) and running through a matchup with\u00a0Missouri<\/a>\u00a0(on Jan. 7) \u2014 with contests versus\u00a0Bellarmine<\/a>,\u00a0St. John’s<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Alabama<\/a>\u00a0in between \u2014 Jelavic\u0301 combined to play a total of seven minutes. All that court time was against Bellarmine; he didn’t log a single minute in the other four games.<\/p>\n

But he returned to the starting five in\u00a0UK’s road victory over LSU<\/a>\u00a0on Jan. 14 and remained there the rest of the season.<\/p>\n

The fallow period from mid-December through the early portion of January came on the heels of a regular role, as he played at least 10 minutes off the bench in all of the Wildcats’ first 10 games.<\/p>\n

His best games in the points department occurred in the aforementioned road triumph over LSU, as well as victories over\u00a0Eastern Illinois<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0South Carolina<\/a>; Jelavic\u0301 scored 11 in all three contests. He pulled down a career-high 10 rebounds in a rout of\u00a0Tennessee Tech<\/a>\u00a0in November.<\/p>\n

Jelavic\u0301 made 47.7% (73 for 153) of his field goal attempts on the season. But his 3-point shooting, which was expected to be a strength, wasn’t evident: He connected on just 27.1% (21 for 76) of his long-range tries.<\/p>\n

Jelavic\u0301\u00a0committed to Kentucky<\/a>\u00a0in April 2025 after spending the previous two seasons suiting up for\u00a0Mega Superbet<\/a>, a Serbian team in the\u00a0Adriatic League<\/a>. Per ESPN, the Jelavic averaged 10.8 points, 7.3 rebounds, 1.6 assists and 1.2 steals in 30 minutes per game in his two-season stint with Mega Superbet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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