HOUSTON – University of Houston Men's Basketball point guard Milos Uzan will withdraw his name from the 2025 NBA Draft and return to the Cougars to compete during the 2025-26 season, he announced Tuesday.
Uzan will compete as a senior with one final season of eligibility remaining.
This past season, Uzan led the Cougars to one of the greatest seasons in school history. Starting all 40 games to set a school single-season record, Uzan helped guide Houston to the NCAA Tournament National Championship Game, the program's seventh NCAA Final Four appearance and second under Head Coach Kelvin Sampson, and a sweep of the Big 12 Conference regular-season and tournament championships.
With a league-best 19-1 mark in conference games, Houston became the first school to join a major conference and win the regular-season title in each of its first two years in the league in more than 100 years.
The Cougars finished #2 in both national polls and set a school single-season record with 35 wins.
Competing in his first season at Houston after transferring from Oklahoma, Uzan emerged as a leader for the Cougars, earning All-Big 12 Conference Second Team and NABC All-Gulf District Second-Team honors.
He finished third on the team with 11.4 points per game and led the Cougars and ranked eighth in the Big 12 with 4.4 assists per game.
He scored double-digit points in 25 games with a career-high 25 points against rv/#24 Arizona to lead the Cougars to the Phillips Big 12 Conference Championship title in Kansas City, Mo., on March 15. Uzan earned a place on the league's All-Tournament Team.
Uzan's stellar play continued in the NCAA Tournament. In the Cougars' 62-60 win over #22/22 (4) Purdue in the NCAA Elite Eight, he scored 22 points with a career-high six 3-pointer and scored the game-winning basket on an assist from forward Joseph Tugler with less than a second remanining.
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