UCLA Men's Basketball: Why Incoming Bruins Sharpshooter Transferred to Westwood
New sharpshooting UCLA Bruins wing Lazar Stefanovic, a 6'7" junior transfer formerly with the Utah Utes, recently spoke with gathered media ahead of his new team's Spanish preseason exhibition trip to discuss his first impressions.
Last year with the Utes, the Belgrade-born shooting guard averaged 10.2 points on .369/.359/.868 shooting splits, 3.0 rebounds, 2.7 assists, and 1.1 steals across 32 contests (15 starts), playing 28.3 minutes per. That 35.9% three-point shooting mark arrives on a high-volume 4.8 long range attempts a night, the 15th-best such conversion rate in the Pac-12 conference.
He was also a Pac-12 All-Freshman Team honoree in 2021-22.
"Not sure if there's a need to say too much about [the appeal of UCLA] when you look at the history of this program and what this program stands for," Stefanovic said. "I care about winning, I want to win a lot, and that's what this program does so that was one of the biggest things that made me decide to come here."
UCLA has amassed the most NCAA championships of any men's collegiate basketball team, with 11. The last title arrived in 1995. In its four completed seasons under returning head coach Mick Cronin, considered to be one of the ten best men's hoops coaches in the college game, the Bruins have gotten as far the Final Four.
