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Andrew BogutAndrew Michael Bogut (born November 28, 1984 in Melbourne) is an Australian basketball player of Croatian descent who is a sophomore at the University of Utah, where he stars as a center. The 7'0", 245 lb (2.16 m, 111 kg) Bogut, who can also play power forward, formally declared his eligibility for the NBA Draft on March 28, and had already signed with an agent, which ended his college eligibility. Most observers believe that Bogut will be one of the first two players selected in the 2005 NBA Draft. As a 15-year-old, he was cut from the Victoria junior state representative team. That experience apparently drove him to improve; he later went on to attend the Australian Institute of Sport. In his last season at AIS, he averaged 22 points and 14.5 rebounds. He went on to lead the Australian team that won the 2003 FIBA Junior World Championships, and was named the tournament MVP. As a freshman at Utah in 2003-04, he barely missed averaging a double-double for the season with 12.5 points and 9.9 rebounds, and was named Freshman of the Year in the Mountain West Conference. During the summer, he was a starter on the Australian Olympic team, averaging 14.8 points, 8.8 rebounds, and 1.2 blocked shots and shooting 58.0% from the field. After his solid though unspectacular freshman season, he did not even receive honorable mention on the preseason All-America team for the 2004-05 season. However, he had a true breakout season as a sophomore. Bogut averaged 20.4 points, 12.2 rebounds (second in Division I), 2.3 assists, and 1.8 blocks, and shot 62.0% from the field (eighth in Division I). He also led Division I in double-doubles, with 26. In Utah's first-round NCAA tournament win over UTEP, Bogut racked up a double-double with 24 points and 11 rebounds. In a second-round upset over Oklahoma, Bogut scored a season-low 10 points, but had 11 rebounds and a career-high seven assists. In his last college game, a loss in the regional semifinals to Kentucky, he scored 20 points and grabbed 11 rebounds, but was harassed by a Wildcats defense that threw multiple players at him into one of his worst shooting games ever. After the 2004-05 regular season, Bogut was the leading vote-getter on the AP All-America team and won most major national individual awards, earning Player of the Year honors from the Associated Press and ESPN.com, plus the Naismith Award. External links Bogut, Andrew Bogut, Andrew Bogut, Andrew Bogut, Andrew
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