Career Highlights: Earned Honorable Mention All-Pac-10 honors his junior and senior seasons. Named Honorable Mention Pac-10 All-Freshman Team honors in 2003-04. Finished collegiate career as Arizona’s 23rd all-time leading scorer with 1,300 points. Also ranks ninth in career free throw percentage (.803). Recorded 12 career double-doubles. Played two seasons with the KK Partizan youth team in Belgrade after high school before enrolling at Arizona.
Senior (2006-07): Averaged 15.1 points (ranked ninth in the Pac-10) and 7.6 rebounds (seventh). Also ranked second in free throw percentage (.872). Scored 20 or more points seven times. Exploded for a career-high 37 points while posting nine rebounds and a career-high seven assists vs. Stanford. Posted 22 points and a season-high 13 rebounds vs. Louisville. Tallied 25 points and 12 rebounds vs. New Mexico State. Scored 20 points at UCLA. Recorded a double-double of 15 points and 10 rebounds at USC. Registered 12 points and a team-high nine rebounds vs. Purdue in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
Junior (2005-06): Averaged 12.1 points and a team-high 6.3 rebounds (ranked eighth in the Pac-10). Scored a season-high 26 points vs. Oregon State. Recorded 23 points on 8-for-10 shooting and grabbed eight rebounds at Stanford. Tallied 20 points and nine rebounds vs. Connecticut. Posted a 12-point, season-high 11-rebound double-double vs. Houston. Registered 21 points and seven rebounds vs. Stanford in the quarterfinals of the Pac-10 Tournament. Scored 17 points and pulled down 10 rebounds vs. UCLA in the semifinals. Notched 18 points and seven rebounds vs. Wisconsin in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
Sophomore (2004-05): Averaged 8.6 points and 5.5 rebounds in 25.5 minutes a contest. Recorded four double-doubles. Posted a season-high 20 points and pulled down ten rebounds vs. San Diego. Grabbed a career-high 14 rebounds vs. UCLA and registered a double-double of 19 points and 12 rebounds in the rematch. Hit all five shot attempts in scoring 13 points vs. Oklahoma State in the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA Tournament. Tallied 13 points, five rebounds and four steals vs. Illinois in the Chicago Regional finals.
Freshman (2003-04): Averaged 5.8 points and 2.9 rebounds in 14.2 minutes a contest. Appeared in 23 games after joining the team on Dec. 20. Scored in double figures five times. Tallied a season-high 19 points and eight rebounds vs. Oregon. Registered 17 points and a season-high nine rebounds in his collegiate debut vs. Liberty.
Strengths: Can create mismatches with his ability to either post up or face the basket and shoot. Is effective at getting to the foul line. A hard worker whose production has increased dramatically during his collegiate career.
Personal: Majored in psychology. Played with club teams in his native Belgrade since the age of nine.
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