The Salt Lake Tribune
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Envisioning a roster of the future
Don't expect a whole lot of changes to the roster next season, considering every player with whom I spoke over the final weeks of the season indicated he planned to return.

But one guy probably won't be back.

Forward Misha Radojevic still has a year of eligibility, but the coaches have made it clear to him that he should probably earn his degree this summer and move on, knowing a new coach is probably going to want to use his scholarship on another player.

The 6-foot-9 forward from Serbia joined the Utes two years ago in the hope that he could help fill the void left when All-American Andrew Bogut departed for the NBA, but he never fulfilled the promise.

Two knee surgeries wiped out what mobility he had, and Radojevic wound up redshirting last season and playing sparingly this year. He appeared in just 14 games - including just 10 of the last 13 and none of the last eight - averaging 1.0 points in 5.8 minutes per game.

Presuming he departs, the Utes will have one scholarship to fill for next season - the one that had been taken away for several years as punishment for the NCAA violations committed under former coach Rick Majerus.

That also presumes that all three incoming recruits join the Utes as planned, and take up the scholarships being vacated by outgoing senior Ricky Johns, Radojevic and David Foster, who's expected to serve an LDS Church mission.

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   Michael C. Lewis has covered the University of Utah men's basketball team since 2004, and is still waiting for his chance to grab the microphone after a game.