Elmir Džafic

Height:
7-0
Weight:
280
Class:
Sophomore
Hometown:
Tinja, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Prev School:
Arkansas
High School:
Fifth Gymnasium Sarajevo

Before UConn: Spent his freshman season at Arkansas in 2025-26 before joining the Huskies as a sophomore… saw time in seven contests for the Razorbacks and totaled three points, a rebound, a block and a steal…prior to his time in Fayetteville, spent two seasons with KK Bosna Royal in Sarajevo in the BiH Liga, the top flight in Bosnia and Herzegovina…in 2023-24 and 2024-25 he combined to appear in 17 games and averaged 2.4 points and 1.4 rebounds while shooting 69.6 percent…debuted in the First League of Republika Srpska in 2022-23 with Buducnost BN in Bileljina, where he averaged 3.7 points and 2.8 rebounds in 25 contests…in the international stage, was part of the Bosnian National Team at the 2023 FIBA U18 European Championship Division B…totaled eight appearances in the competition and averaged a double-double with 13.1 points and 10.0 points per game….graduated from Fifth Gynasium Sarajevo in 2025.

Personal: Elmir Džafic…born Sept. 6, 2005…son of Fatima and Sanel Džafic…has a younger brother Eren.