Florida Gators

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Virginia Tech basketball fans are probably growing a little weary of Florida raiding its cupboard. 

When All-Atlantic Coast Conference center and graduate transfer Kerry Blackshear announced last week he would play his 2019-20 season for the Gators, he became the third marquee Hokie to leave Blacksburg, Va., for Gainesville.

And the Hokies, as the below chart of all-time UF transfers will attest, have been very good to the Gators.

With one year to play, Blackshear, who played his prep basketball at Orlando Evans High, won't assault this list the way Dorian Finney-Smith did over three seasons or Jalen Hudson, once a teammate of Blackshear's at Tech, did in his two seasons. But any numbers that remotely resemble what the 6-foot-11, 235-pounder put up last season — 14.9 points, 7.5 rebounds and nearly 30 minutes per game for a NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 team — will rocket him up the chart the way the two grad transfers before him, Canyon Barry and Egor Koulechov, did in their lone seasons after parachuting in via College of Charleston in 2016 and Rice in 2017, respectively.

Worth noting: Though he won't show up here after next season, the Gators have a second future entry on this list in former Louisiana Tech forward Anthony Duruji, who checked in with his five freshmen teammates last week. Duruji, a 6-7, 211-pound junior from Germantown, Md., averaged 12.2 points and 6.2 rebounds as a sophomore with the Bulldogs last season, but must sit out the '19-20 campaign per NCAA underclassmen transfer rules. He'll be a fourth-year junior with two seasons of eligibility starting in '20-21. 
 
 

Points	Player	Pos.	Years	From	Statistics
1,220	Dorian Finney-Smith	Forward	2013-16	Virginia Tech	42.8% FG, 36.1% 3pt, 67.3% FT, No. 37 scorer in UF history.
861	Jalen Hudson	Guard	2017-19	Virginia Tech	70 games, 34 starts, 12.3 ppg, 3.4 rpg, 41.1% FG, 34.9% 3pt, 68.5% FT
787	Vernon Macklin	Center	2009-11	Georgetown	71 games, 69 starts, 11.1 ppg, 5.5 rpg, 59.95 FG, 52.0% FT
655	Mike Rosario	Guard	2011-13	Rutgers	67 games, 36 starts, 9.8 ppg, 44.2% FG, 35.6% 3pt, 80.9% FT
578	John Egbunu	Center	2015-17	South Florida	58 games, 49 starts, 10.0 ppg, 6.5 rpg, 1.4 bpg, 55.8 FG, 54.5% FT468
469	Egor Koulechov	Forward	2017-18	Rice	34 games, 34 starts, 13.8 ppg, 6.4 rpg, 43.5% FG, 39.5% 3pt, 86.% FT
399	Canyon Barry	Forward	2016-17	College of Charleston	35 games, 1 start, 11.4 ppg, 2.4 rpg, 42.2% FG, 33.6% 3pt, 88.3% FT, 2017 SEC Sixth Man of Year
341	Jason Williams	Guard	1997-98	Marshall	20 games, 17 starts, 17.1 ppg, 3.0 rpg, 6.7 apg, 44.1% FG, 40.3% 3pt, 84.0% FT
250	Eli Carter	Guard	2013-15		35 games, 17 starts, 7.1 ppg, 34.5% FG, 29.3% 3pt, 77.3% FT
201	Jon Horford	Center	2014-15	Michigan	31 games, 28 starts, 6.5 ppg, 48.4% FG, 78.8% FT
127	Alex Murphy	Forward	2014-15	Duke	26 games, 4 starts 4.9 ppg, 1.9 rpg, 45.1% FG, 18.9% 3pt, 58.35 FT
62	Schuyler Rimmer	Center	2015-17	Stanford	46 games, 1 start, 1.3 ppg, 1.1 rpg, 44.0% FG, 73.9% FT