Florida guard City Klavžar has been cleared to play by the NCAA, Gators coach Todd Golden introduced Thursday. The event is simply the most recent in a string of fine information for the Gators amid a 3-0 begin to 2024-25. The 20-year-old freshman performed the final three years professionally in Slovenia. He was sidelined indefinitely pending an NCAA evaluate into his eligibility, which bled almost two weeks into the season. Golden mentioned Klavžar will make his faculty debut for No. 20 Friday because it travels on the highway to face rival Florida State.
The 6-foot-1, 195-pound Klavžar was one among six newcomers to the Florida roster for the 2024-25 season. 247Sports ranked him because the No. 211 total participant within the Class of 2024 and the No. 24 level guard prospect. He was the ultimate addition to Florida’s 62nd-ranked recruiting class after committing in July and enrolling 4 weeks later.
Florida has a wealth of expertise in its backcourt already, and including Klavžar to the combination ought to add depth and scoring to a group that has each in spades. He is performed professionally with Actual Madrid, UCAM Murcia CB and CD Estela Cantabria as a young person, and final season with Cantabria he averaged 8.9 factors and 1.5 assists per sport whereas taking pictures 42.7% from 3-point vary. Klavžar additionally performed for the Slovenian senior nationwide group on the FIBA circuit in 2023, the place he averaged 7.3 factors per sport.
Senior Gators guard Walter Clayton Jr. is coming off an All-SEC marketing campaign and at the moment leads the group in scoring and assists and coming off an All-SEC marketing campaign. That makes it unlikely Klavžar works his approach into the beginning lineup, however his scoring punch and playmaking may very well be a boon to Golden’s bench and provides Florida one other complementary weapon alongside Clayton, Will Richard and Alijah Martin.
Florida opened the season ranked No. 21 within the AP High 25 and moved up one spot this week to No. 20 after a 2-0 begin to the season. It defeated Grambling State 86-62 on Monday to enhance to 3-0 to arrange an undefeated vs. undefeated matchup Friday night time in Tallahassee, Florida, between Florida and Florida State.
