Haggerty Named to the Preseason All-Big 12 Team

MANHATTAN, Kan. – Junior guard P.J. Haggerty has been named to the 10-member Preseason All-Big 12 crew by the league coaches, because the convention introduced its annual preseason ballot and all-conference groups on Thursday morning (Oct. 16).
 
A consensus Second Team All-American and AAC Player of the Year at Memphis, Haggerty is certainly one of three newcomers on the Preseason All-Big 12 crew, together with freshman phenoms AJ Dybantsa of BYU and Darryn Peterson of Kansas. The trio of newcomers are joined by seven returners in BYU’s Richie Saunders, Houston’s Emanuel Sharp, Joseph Tugler and Milos Uzan, Iowa State’s Tamin Lipsey and Texas Tech’s Christian Anderson and JT Toppin.
 
Dybantsa, Uzan, Peterson and Toppin have been all unanimous choices.
 
Toppin and Peterson have been named the Preseason Player and Freshman of the Year, whereas Toppin’s teammate LeJuan Watts was chosen because the Preseason Newcomer of the Year.
 
Ok-State was picked ninth within the 16-team preseason ballot with 117 factors, simply three factors behind eighth-place Cincinnati and 27 factors forward of Tenth-place TCU.
 
Reigning regular-season and event champion Houston was chosen first with 224 factors and 14 of the 16 first-place votes adopted by second-place BYU (204 factors, one first-place vote) and third-place Texas Tech (200 factors). The remainder of the top-7 included Arizona (179 factors, one first-place vote), Iowa State (170), Kansas (163) and Baylor (137).
 
The remainder of the preseason ballot included eighth-place Cincinnati (120) adopted by Ok-State, TCU, West Virginia, Oklahoma State, Utah, UCF, Colorado and Arizona State.
 
Haggerty’s choice marks the second straight 12 months {that a} Wildcat has been named to the preseason all-conference crew (Coleman Hawkins, 2024) by the league coaches. He is certainly one of 9 gamers at school historical past to be chosen for preseason all-conference honors relationship to Manny Dies in 1998-99. Others embrace Jacob Pullen and Curtis Kelly in 2010-11, Rodney McGruder in 2012-13 and Marcus Foster in 2014-15 and Barry Brown Jr. and Dean Wade in 2018-19.
 
Haggerty is coming off a profession 12 months in 2024-25, during 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 along with 6.5 free throws per sport. He ranked third nationally in each scoring (21.7 ppg.) and complete factors (759), whereas his 759 factors have been an AAC single-season report and probably the most since Dajuan Wagner (762) set the college single-season report 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.
 
Ok-State will play the primary of two exhibition video games on Friday, Oct. 24 at Missouri earlier than internet hosting Division II foe Newman the next Friday (Oct. 31) at 7 p.m. The season opener is ready for Tuesday, Nov. 4 towards UNC Greensboro. Game instances and TV designations have been launched on Tuesday (Oct. 14) and might be considered by clicking on this hyperlink.
 
The athletics division has introduced the on-sale dates for males’s and ladies’s basketball convention single-game tickets, together with the Big Game Mini Plan for males’s basketball.

On-Sale Schedule

• Ahearn Fund Members (Online Only): Tuesday, October 21 at 5 p.m., CT

• Ahearn Fund In-Person & Phone Sales: Begin Wednesday, October 22 at 8:30 a.m., CT

• Public (Online Only): Thursday, October 23 at 5 p.m., CT

• Public In-Person & Phone Sales: Begin Friday, October 24 at 8:30 a.m., CT

The males’s basketball Big Game Mini Plan consists of tickets to 5 weekend marquee matchups inside Bramlage Coliseum towards Seton Hall, BYU, KU, Iowa State, and TCU. The Big Game Mini Plan is the one solution to safe seats for the boys’s KU matchup previous to single-game KU tickets being launched at a later date.
 
Single-game tickets for all non-conference matchups and season tickets are at the moment obtainable. Tickets might be bought on-line at www.kstatesports.com/tickets, by visiting the Ok-State Athletics Ticket Office in Bramlage Coliseum or by calling (800) 221.CATS (2287).
 
Single-game tickets for the Kansas sport will probably be obtainable at a later date.
 
 
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