MANHATTAN, Kan. – Junior guard P.J. Haggerty continued to add to his preseason accolades list, 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 presented by AXIA Time, and the Oscar Robertson Trophy, which is given annually to the Player of the Year by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association.
This is third time Haggerty has been named to the watch list for a national player of the year award, as he was among 20 candidates for the 2026 NABC Division I Player of the Year on Oct. 30.
Haggerty has already received a number of preseason accolades, including 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 also named to the watch list for the Jerry West Award, which is given annually the nation’s top shooting guard.
Haggerty averaged 25 points in K-State’s 2 exhibition games, including 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 career year in 2024-25, in which, he became the first Division I player since Ja Morant in 2018-19 to average 21.5 points, 5.5 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 1.5 steals to go with 6.5 free throws per game. He ranked third nationally in both scoring (21.7 ppg.) and total points (759), while his 759 points were an AAC single-season record and the most since Dajuan Wagner (762) set the school single-season record in 2001-02. He became the first Memphis Tiger since 2008 to be named an AP All-American, while he was selected as the AAC Player of the Year, First Team All-AAC and the Most Outstanding Player of the 2025 AAC Championship.