Haggerty Named to Two Extra Player of the Year Watch Lists

MANHATTAN, Kan. – Junior guard P.J. Haggerty continued so as to add to his preseason accolades record, as he was named to the watch lists for the 2025-26 Jersey Mike’s Naismith Trophy Men’s College Player of the Year award, which is introduced by AXIA Time, and the Oscar Robertson Trophy, which is given yearly to the Player of the Year by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association.
 
This is third time Haggerty has been named to the watch record for a nationwide participant of the yr award, as he was amongst 20 candidates for the 2026 NABC Division I Player of the Year on Oct. 30.
 
Haggerty has already obtained a lot of 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 record for the Jerry West Award, which is given yearly the nation’s prime taking pictures guard.
 
Haggerty averaged 25 factors in Ok-State’s 2 exhibition video games, together with a 27-point, 10-assist double-double in Friday’s win over Newman.
 
A consensus Second Team All-American at Memphis, Haggerty is coming off a profession yr in 2024-25, during which, he turned 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 sport. He ranked third nationally in each scoring (21.7 ppg.) and whole factors (759), whereas his 759 factors have been an AAC single-season document and probably the most since Dajuan Wagner (762) set the college single-season document in 2001-02. He turned 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.
 
Ok-State will formally open the 2025-26 season on Tuesday evening when the Wildcats play host to UNC Greensboro at 7 p.m., CT. Tip is about for 7 p.m., CT and can air on ESPN+ in addition to the Ok-State Sports Network. Tickets can be found one at kstatesports.com/tickets, by calling (800) 221.CATS and in-person on the Athletic Ticket Office in Bramlage Coliseum.
 
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