Career
Spent his first college season at Mississippi State (sophomore, in 2025-26) … transferred to UCLA in the summer of 2026 … has two years of remaining collegiate eligibility.
2025-26 (at Mississippi State)
Played in 28 games, making four starts as a sophomore at Mississippi State (Starkville, Miss.) … averaged 5.0 points and 4.8 rebounds per game … registered 18.4 minutes per game (28 games) … shot 55.7 percent from the field and 28.6 percent from 3-point range (6-for-21) … scored in double figures in three contests … totaled a season-high 12 points against Long Island (Dec. 16, 2025), shooting 5-for-6 from the field, with seven rebounds and two steals … had three games with at least 10 rebounds, including one 10-point and 10-rebound double-double at LSU (Jan. 28, 2026) … also had a season-best 12 rebounds in the team’s season opener against North Alabama (Nov. 5, 2025) … totaled 11 rebounds against Ole Miss (Jan. 17, 2026) … logged a season-high three assists in three games … played at least 20 minutes in eight games, including a season-high 30 minutes at Texas (Jan. 3, 2026).
Prior to College
Prior to moving to the United States in the summer of 2025, played for Grupo Elevco Baskonia (2022-23, in Spain), Ilirija (2023-24, in Slovenia) and KK Mega Basket (2024-25, in Serbia) … the 2024-25 KK Mega Basket starting five each played at power conference schools in 2025-26, with Macura at Mississippi State, Andrija Jelavic at Kentucky, Filip Jovic at Auburn (now one of his UCLA teammates), Timotej Malovec at Miami (FL) and Mihailo Petrocvic at Illinois … in international basketball, represented his native nation of Slovenia at multiple events … averaged 12.6 points, 7.0 rebounds and 1.9 assists per game at the 2023 FIBA U19 World Cup in Hungary … scored an event-high 19 points against the United States (June 25, 2023) during the group phase … totaled 15 points and seven rebounds against Canada (June 28, 2023) in the tournament’s Round of 16 … averaged 11.3 points, 4.5 rebounds and 1.5 assists per game as Slovenia won the silver medal at the 2024 U20 EuroBasket Championships in Poland … scored in double figures in four outings, headed by 16 points and seven rebounds against Israel (July 15, 2024).
Personal
Sergej Macura is pronounced SUR-gey MAHT-su-rah … was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia … hometown is Ljubljana, Slovenia (city is pronounced loo-blee-YAHN-ah) … is fluent in four languages (Slovenian, Serbian, Spanish and English), with Slovenian being his first language … is the youngest of three children … parents are Urška Macura (mother) and Marko Macura (father) … older sister, Živa, played basketball until age 18 and was the youngest Slovenian women’s player to compete for Slovenia’s national team (she now works as an anesthesiologist) … older brother, Jurij, made his debut with the Slovenia’s national team during the 2019 FIBA World Cup qualifications and last played for Krka of the AdmiralBet ABA League First Division … father (Marko) works as an orthopedic doctor and has served a doctor with the Slovenian national basketball team … mother (Urška) works as a school teacher … Sergej moved to Spain at the age of 13 and spent approximately six years living there (until 2023) … sociology major.
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