7/20/2022 basketball Edit

Indiana Basketball: Yogi Ferrell re-signs with Cedevita Olimpija

Kyler Staley • TheHoosier

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According to the Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana Twitter account, former Indiana guard Yogi Ferrell has re-signed with the basketball club out of Slovenia.

Ferrell, who played for Indiana from 2012-16, was a standout for the Hoosiers during his time there. He helped lead them to two Big Ten Championship (2013, 2016) along with personally achieving Big Ten All-Freshman Team (2013), Big Ten All-Defensive team (2016), Second-team All-Big Ten (2014), and 2x First-team All-Big Ten (2015, 2016).

After college, Ferrell went undrafted but had multiple stops in the NBA with teams like the Brooklyn Nets, Dallas Mavericks, Sacramento Kings, Cleveland Cavilers, and Las Angeles Clippers.

He has been playing overseas since 2021 with his first stop being with Panathinaikos B.C. and now with Cedevita Olimpija.

Full release on Ferrell's re-signing below.

In Cedevita Olimpija, we will also continue to monitor the American game organizer with experience playing in the NBA League and the elite Euroleague, Yogi Ferrell, who joined the Ljubljana collective in the middle of last season.

After Ed Murić, Alen Omić and Zoran Dragić, Cedevita Olimpija in Ljubljana managed to keep another one of the holders of the game from the 2021/22 season. American game organizer Yogi Ferrell, who joined the Dragons in the middle of last season and immediately became one of the key members of the Slovenian national, cup and super cup champions, also remains in the Slovenian capital, as well as a favorite of the fans of the Ljubljana team.

"I am pleased to continue to be a part of Cedevita Olimpija and to join forces again with Ed, Zoran and Alen and all the other guys who stayed in Ljubljana from last season and those who have and will join us this summer. I believe that we will enter the new season highly motivated to correct the result of last season and that all fans will continue to enjoy our good performances and fighting games. I can't wait for the new season to start," Ferrell said when extending his contract with Cedevita Olimpija.

In the 2021/22 competitive season, Yogi Ferrell played in 15 7DAYS EuroCup matches and 22 regional league matches in the Cedevita Olimpija jersey, and previously he played in five elite Euroleague matches in the Greek Panathinaikos jersey. In the regional league, he averaged 12.6 points, 3.4 assists and 2.4 rebounds, and in the European Cup he recorded 15.3 points, 4.7 assists and 2.6 rebounds per contest.