Former BU recruit Matej Buovac leaves New Mexico State

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Former BU recruit Matej Buovac - who chose New Mexico State - has suddenly departed and joined a Croatian Club Team, Retkovec Dream...
There is no mention if this means he will never be back or he might try to return next fall - but playing on a club team might jeopardize that possibility. He'd have to carefully prove he did not receive remuneration.
Historically, when NCAA players have left to play on Club Teams (Lucca Staiger, Gal Mekel..) they do not return.
It wouldn't be surprising - as Buovac was so deep in the playing rotation that he barely ever saw the court...played only a handful of minutes the entire season, only attempted 8 3-pt shots (supposedly his forte) and also faces a tough challenge for playing time in 2013-14 since NMSU returns almost EVERYONE from their 2013 NCAA team plus lands a good recruiting class !

[Future Walk-On]

Milos syndrome?

[BU-Bball]

Not at all. Milos stayed all 4 years despite of playing time. This guy bailed after one year and will never get a college degree.

[Future Walk-On]

Not at all. Milos stayed all 4 years despite of playing time. This guy bailed after one year and will never get a college degree.

the point was he was supposively is good 3 point shooter but didn't play and had only 8 attempts all season..

[BU-Bball]

Sorry, would have never guessed that was where you were going.

[Chico]

Not at all. Milos stayed all 4 years despite of playing time. This guy bailed after one year and will never get a college degree.

Shows Milos is a little smarter than he is. Wish Milos could have seen more playing time. Would have loved to see him firing up 3s. Many say he couldn't play defense, but with BU's record his 4 years, what difference would it have made.

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Matej Buovac is also trying out for the Croatian U-20 International Team - this is purely an amateur team and participation would not affect Buovac's ability to return to New Mexico State.

https://twitter.com/JPGroves/status/337669262992883712

Of interest - as previously noted - his friend from Indiana prep days, Mislav Brzoja is already selected for the Croatian U-19 Team

http://www.fiba.com/pages/eng/fc/news/lateNews/p/newsid/55692/arti.html

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the Serbian U-20 team will have Stefan Zecevic - so we can see how they do head to head

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a couple bits of news about Matej Buovac...

-Buovac is actually playing fairly well in the European U20 Championships.
He is the 3rd leading scorer for Croatia at 10 ppg and 45% on 3-pointers, even tho he barely played last year for the Aggies.

http://basketball.eurobasket.com/Croatia/news/U20_European_Championship_Matej_Buovac_leads_Croatia_past_Germany/324445

-second his college team New Mexico State - will be the tallest D-I Team in the entire NATION..

Yesterday they got a commitment from a 7-3 prospect, and they already have a 7-5 player and two 6-10 kids

http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/07/17/tanveer-bhullar-commits-to-new-mexico-state-joins-brother-sim-picture-2/

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ex-BU recruiting target Matej Buovac, who returned and sat the bench even more at New Mexico State, barely seeing any court time at all...

has now left again and plans to transfer to Sacred Heart - a small (undergrad enrollment 4200) school in Connecticut that is in a transition phase to Division I

...and for the first time that link also acknowledges that Johnathon Wilkins will take the open scholarship