{"id":166939,"date":"2025-07-13T02:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T02:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/166939\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T02:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T02:25:11","slug":"andrija-jelavic-listed-on-kentucky-mbbs-official-2025-26-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/166939\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrija Jelavi\u0107 listed on Kentucky MBB&#8217;s official 2025-26 roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Incoming Kentucky freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/andrija-jelavic-250589\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrija Jelavi\u0107<\/a> has yet to make his way to Lexington, but he\u2019s listed on the Wildcats\u2019 team website roster.<\/p>\n<p>Within the last day or so, <a href=\"https:\/\/ukathletics.com\/sports\/mbball\/roster\/season\/2025-26\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the men\u2019s basketball team updated the 2025-26 roster on its website<\/a> for the first time this offseason. Jelavi\u0107 is the only one among the 14 scholarship players without a headshot, but he has a profile page and a short player bio. He\u2019ll also wear the No. 4 jersey once he comes over from his home of Croatia to the Bluegrass State. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s yet to be known exactly when Jelavi\u0107 will make the trip overseas and settle into his home on UK\u2019s campus, which has some members of the Big Blue Nation curious about when his arrival will actually happen, but the team listing him on the roster certainly can\u2019t be a bad thing. <\/p>\n<p>Jelavi\u0107, who turned 21 years old in May and possesses a 7-foot-2 wingspan, looks to be a perfect fit for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/coach\/mark-pope-132332\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Pope<\/a>\u2019s system. The 6-foot-11 stretch big can shoot from deep, but is also quick and agile with the ball on the perimeter for someone his size. That quickness, combined with plenty of length, could make him a plus-defender at the college level. He\u2019ll provide even more depth for an already deep rotation.  <\/p>\n<p>Kentucky is already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/kentucky-wildcats\/news\/kentucky-mens-basketball-halfway-through-summer-practices\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">halfway through summer practices<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/jasper-johnson-158521\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jasper Johnson<\/a>, who spent the first few weeks suiting up for Team USA, ultimately winning a gold medal in Switzerland, made his way to Lexington earlier this week as he begins to get into a groove with the rest of the team. Jelavi\u0107 shouldn\u2019t be too far away from joining Johnson and the rest of his future teammates. <\/p>\n<p>Kentucky MBB 2025-26 jersey numbers + height\/weight<\/p>\n<p>00: Otega Oweh | 6-4, 215 Sr.<\/p>\n<p>1: Denzel Aberdeen | 6-5, 190 Sr.<\/p>\n<p>2: Jasper Johnson | 604, 175 Fr.<\/p>\n<p>3: Kam Williams | 6-8, 190 So.<\/p>\n<p>4: Andrija Jelavi\u0107 | 6-11 Fr.<\/p>\n<p>5: Collin Chandler | 6-5, 202 So.<\/p>\n<p>9: Trent Noah | 6-5 220 So. <\/p>\n<p>10: Brandon Garrison | 6-10, 250 Jr. <\/p>\n<p>15: Jaland Lowe | 6-3, 188 Jr. <\/p>\n<p>21: Jayden Quaintance | 6-9, 215 So. <\/p>\n<p>22: Braydon Hawthorne | 6-8, 175 Fr. <\/p>\n<p>23: Mo Dioubate | 6-7, 215 Jr. <\/p>\n<p>24: Malachi Moreno | 6-11, 230 Fr. <\/p>\n<p>33: Reece Potter | 7-1, 215 Jr. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Incoming Kentucky freshman Andrija Jelavi\u0107 has yet to make his way to Lexington, but he\u2019s listed on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[4734,7],"class_list":{"0":"post-166939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-andrija-jelavic","9":"tag-basketball"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114843557933341746","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}