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<\/p>\nFlorida men\u2019s basketball signed 22-year-old forward Domen Petrovi\u010d, head coach Todd Golden announced on Monday.<\/p>\n
The 6-foot-9 Slovenian joins Jones Lay, Arturas Butajevas and Denzel Aberdeen as the newest additions to the Gators heading into the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n
“We are really excited to welcome Domen into our program,” Golden said. “He is a very skilled forward that has great positional size. He has shown incremental improvement every year, and he’s currently playing the best basketball of his young career.\u201d<\/p>\n
Petrovi\u010d will reunite with reigning SEC Sixth-Man of the Year Urban Klavzar, after the pair represented Slovenia in the 2024 FIBA U20 EuroBasket. Averaging 9.7 points and 3.9 boards per game, Petrovi\u010d helped Slovenia toward a silver medal.<\/p>\n
The 22-year-old also represented Slovenia in the 2022 U18 European Championship, where he averaged 5.6 points and 3.6 rebounds per outing. Slovenia ultimately finished fourth.<\/p>\n
Petrovi\u010d\u2019s most recent experience came with GGD \u0160en\u010dur in the Premier A Slovenian Basketball League, where he averaged 16.6 points and shot 57.4% from the field, including 29.5% from beyond the arc.<\/p>\n
This move adds to the long list of international players Golden has brought in during his time at Florida.<\/p>\n
Contact Jeffrey Serber at Jserber@alligator.org. Follow him on X @JeffreySerber.<\/p>\n
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Jeffrey Serber<\/p>\n
Jeffrey is the spring 2026 men’s basketball beat reporter and a second-year journalism sports & media major with a media, management and production minor. In his free time, he enjoys hanging out with friends and family, and rooting for the Miami sports teams<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida men\u2019s basketball signed 22-year-old forward Domen Petrovi\u010d, head coach Todd Golden announced on Monday. The 6-foot-9 Slovenian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-258619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}