Haggerty Named to John R. Wooden Preseason Watch List

MANHATTAN, Kan. – Junior guard P.J. Haggerty was amongst 50 gamers to be listed on the John R. Wooden Award Preseason Watch List as introduced by the Los Angeles Athletic Club.

The John R. Wooden Award is given yearly to probably the most excellent participant in school basketball and is awarded primarily based on votes contemplating a participant’s efficiency on and off the court docket.

Haggerty is one among 11 Big 12 gamers on the record, together with Texas Tech’s Christian Anderson and JT Toppin, BYU’s AJ Dybansta and Ritchie Saunders, Iowa State’s Tamin Lipsey, Arizona’s Koa Peat, Kansas’ Darryn Peterson and Houston’s Emanuel Sharp, Joseph Tugler and Milos Uzan.

This is the fourth time Haggerty has been named to the watch record for a nationwide participant of the 12 months award, as he was amongst 20 candidates for the 2026 NABC Division I Player of the Year on Oct. 30 whereas he was chosen to the watch lists for the 2025-26 Jersey Mike’s Naismith Trophy Men’s College Player of the Year award and the Oscar Robertson Trophy, which is given yearly to the Player of the Year by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association earlier this month.

Haggerty is off to an ideal begin to the season, as he ranks second nationally in scoring at 26 factors per sport. He is one among three Wildcats to open the season with 4 consecutive video games of 20 or extra factors, which features a 31-point, 10-rebound efficiency within the win over Tulsa on Monday night time. He is the primary Wildcat with such a stat line since Michael Beasley in 2008.

Haggerty obtained various 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.

Ok-State (4-0) opens play within the Hall of Fame Classic on Thursday night time towards Mississippi State (2-1) on the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City. The sport will observe the primary sport of the doubleheader between Nebraska and New Mexico at round 8:30 p.m., CT and can air on Peacock, NBC Sports NOW and NBC Sports Network on YouTube.


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