MANHATTAN, Kan. – Junior guard
P.J. Haggerty was amongst 20 gamers named to the watch listing for the 2026 National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Division I Player of the Year award in announcement by the group on Thursday (Oct. 30).
The award is chosen in a nationwide vote of Division I head coaches on the conclusion of the common season. It might be introduced the week of the 2026 Final Four.
Haggerty was joined on the watch listing by 4 different Big 12 gamers, together with BYU’s
AJ Dybantsa, Kansas’
Darryn Peterson, Texas Tech’s
JT Toppin and Houston’s
Milos Uzan.
Other candidates embrace Tennessee’s
Nate Ament, Duke’s
Cameron Boozer, Florida’s
Alex Condon, UCLA’s
Donovan Dent, St. John’s
Zuby Ejiofor, Gonzaga’s
Graham Ike, UConn’s
Alex Karaban, Purdue’s
Trey Kaufman-Renn, Michigan’s
Yaxel Lendeborg, Kentucky’s
Otega Oweh, Auburn’s
Tahaad Pettiford, Alabama’s
Labaron Philon, Purdue’s
Braden Smith, Iowa’s
Bennett Stirtz and N.C. State’s
Darrion Williams.
Haggerty has already obtained quite a few preseason accolades, together with All-America honors from CBS Sports, Jay Bilas, The Field of 68, Jon Rothstein and @CBBAnalytics and All-Big 12 honors from the league coaches. He was additionally named to the watch listing for the Jerry West Award, which is given yearly the nation’s prime taking pictures guard.
Haggerty scored a game-high 23 factors in final Friday’s exhibition at Missouri, connecting on 8-of-14 discipline objectives, together with 2-of-4 from 3-point vary, and 5-of-7 free throws to go together with a game-high 6 assists, 2 steals and a pair of rebounds in slightly below 25 minutes of motion.
A consensus Second Team All-American at Memphis, Haggerty is coming off a profession 12 months in 2024-25, by which, he grew to become the primary Division I participant since
Ja Morant in 2018-19 to common 21.5 factors, 5.5 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 1.5 steals to go together with 6.5 free throws per recreation. He ranked third nationally in each scoring (21.7 ppg.) and complete factors (759), whereas his 759 factors had been an AAC single-season file and probably the most since
Dajuan Wagner (762) set the varsity single-season file in 2001-02. He grew to become the primary Memphis Tiger since 2008 to be named an AP All-American, whereas he was chosen because the AAC Player of the Year, First Team All-AAC and the Most Outstanding Player of the 2025 AAC Championship.
The Wildcats will play host to Division II foe Newman on Friday night time at 7 p.m., at Bramlage Coliseum. The season opener is about for Tuesday, Nov. 4 in opposition to UNC Greensboro. Tickets are at present on sale and could be bought in-person on the Athletics Ticket Office, on-line at kstatesports.com/tickets or by calling (800) 221.CATS.
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