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The Florida basketball program saw its first departure to the NCAA transfer portal on Monday. According to Swamp247's sources, sophomore point guard Kajus Kublickas will seek greener pastures elsewhere after winning a national championship with the Gators.
The 6-foot-2-inch native of Lithuania came to Gainesville as an unranked prospect and has spent his entire collegiate career thus far parked at the end of Todd Golden's bench. He has played in 15 games over the past two seasons, amassing a total of 11 points, 10 rebounds, six assists and a steal in 60 total minutes played.
Nine of Kublickas' appearances came last season while six came this year. He only made two shots from the field in seven attempts — one a missed 3-pointer — while going 7-for-8 from the charity stripe for an 87.5% clip.
Kublickas played for Zalgiris II — the reserve team for the professional Lithuanian basketball club Žalgiris Kaunas — during the 2022-23 campaign, where he averaged 9.1 points and 3.3 assists in 37 games and helped the team to a second-league championship. Before that, he helped his country earn a 5-2 record and fifth-place finish at the FIBA U20 EuroBasket, averaging 11.3 points, 3.9 rebounds and 3.4 assists.
The young guard also competed at the FIBA U20 European Championships in 2023 on behalf of Lithuania, averaging 6.3 points and a team-leading 3.1 assists in an eighth-place finish, and at the 2022 U18 European Champions in 2022, posting 8.3 points and a team-high 4.4 assists in a seventh-place finish.
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The 6-foot-2-inch native of Lithuania came to Gainesville as an unranked prospect and has spent his entire collegiate career thus far parked at the end of Todd Golden's bench. He has played in 15 games over the past two seasons, amassing a total of 11 points, 10 rebounds, six assists and a steal in 60 total minutes played.
Nine of Kublickas' appearances came last season while six came this year. He only made two shots from the field in seven attempts — one a missed 3-pointer — while going 7-for-8 from the charity stripe for an 87.5% clip.
Kajus Kublickas' international experience
Kublickas played for Zalgiris II — the reserve team for the professional Lithuanian basketball club Žalgiris Kaunas — during the 2022-23 campaign, where he averaged 9.1 points and 3.3 assists in 37 games and helped the team to a second-league championship. Before that, he helped his country earn a 5-2 record and fifth-place finish at the FIBA U20 EuroBasket, averaging 11.3 points, 3.9 rebounds and 3.4 assists.
The young guard also competed at the FIBA U20 European Championships in 2023 on behalf of Lithuania, averaging 6.3 points and a team-leading 3.1 assists in an eighth-place finish, and at the 2022 U18 European Champions in 2022, posting 8.3 points and a team-high 4.4 assists in a seventh-place finish.
Follow us @GatorsWire on X, formerly known as Twitter, as well as Bluesky, and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Florida Gators news, notes and opinions.
This article originally appeared on Gators Wire: Florida basketball's Kajus Kublickas will enter NCAA transfer portal
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