{"id":36633,"date":"2025-08-01T04:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T04:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/36633\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T04:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T04:45:08","slug":"high-point-transfer-ivan-matlekovic-commits-to-unc-mens-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/36633\/","title":{"rendered":"High Point transfer Ivan Matlekovic commits to UNC men&#8217;s basketball &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ivan Matlekovic, a 6-foot-11 transfer from High Point University, committed to UNC men&#8217;s basketball on Thursday night, according to On3.<\/p>\n<p>As a first-year with the Panthers, Matlekovic averaged 2.6 points, 1.8 rebounds and shot 75 percent from the floor. The Croatian native featured in just five games for the Panthers and scored a season-high nine points against Carolina University in December. <\/p>\n<p>The big man will add height to UNC&#8217;s front court, who also added Arizona transfer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailytarheel.com\/article\/2025\/04\/sports-breaking-henri-veesaar-breaking-april-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Henri <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailytarheel.com\/article\/2025\/04\/sports-breaking-henri-veesaar-breaking-april-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Veesaar<\/a> earlier in the offseason. <\/p>\n<p>Matlekovic is the tenth new addition for head coach Hubert Davis for the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mdmaynard74\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@mdmaynard74<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/DTHSports\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@dthsports<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sports@dailytarheel.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sports@dailytarheel.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ivan Matlekovic, a 6-foot-11 transfer from High Point University, committed to UNC men&#8217;s basketball on Thursday night, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-36633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}