{"id":177118,"date":"2026-03-04T01:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T01:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/177118\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T01:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T01:14:08","slug":"floridas-haugh-sits-out-vs-mississippi-state-as-precaution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/177118\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida’s Haugh sits out vs. Mississippi State as precaution"},"content":{"rendered":"

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida forward Thomas Haugh<\/a>, the team’s leading scorer and in contention for Southeastern Conference player of the year honors, sat out Tuesday’s home finale against Mississippi State as a precaution.<\/p>\n

Haugh leads the fifth-ranked Gators with 17.1 points and ranks third on the team with 6.0 rebounds. He injured an ankle at Texas A&M in early February but had played at least 30 minutes in four of Florida’s last six games.<\/p>\n

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The Gators (23-6, 14-2 SEC) have clinched at least a share of the league’s regular-season title and could become outright champions with a win against the Bulldogs. The defending national champions have won nine in a row and 18 of 20.<\/p>\n

The game was expected to be Haugh’s last one in the O’Connell Center. The junior from New Oxford, Pennsylvania, is widely expected to be an NBA lottery pick in June.<\/p>\n

Center Micah Handlogten<\/a> is starting in his place as part of senior day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida forward Thomas Haugh, the team’s leading scorer and in contention for Southeastern Conference player…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-177118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}