{"id":182405,"date":"2026-03-07T20:15:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T20:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/182405\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T20:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T20:15:11","slug":"florida-star-still-not-100-but-it-is-not-time-to-panic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/182405\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida star still not 100%, but it is not time to panic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5m\">As Florida gets ready to take on Kentucky for the regular season finale, the main concern for Gator fans is the health of Thomas Haugh. The star forward missed Tuesday\u2019s game with a foot injury, and he has popped up again on the availability report ahead of Saturday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5p\">But if we are to take Todd Golden\u2019s word from Tuesday at face value in addition to the practical timing of it all, it\u2019s not time to panic just yet about Haugh.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Haugh shows up on the availability report<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5v\">Haugh has been listed as probable for the game against Kentucky. This follows Haugh sitting out against Mississippi State and comes on the heels of him rolling his ankle against Texas.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5y\">After the game on Tuesday, Golden indicated that he didn\u2019t think the injury to Haugh was anything severe, and he reiterated that while meeting with the media on Friday before f<a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/florida-gators\/news\/thomas-haugh-listed-as-probable-for-the-florida-kentucky-game\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lying out to Lexington<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"61\">\u201cHe\u2019ll still be probable for tomorrow, but barring anything unforeseen, I would expect him to play tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"64\">While Florida is obviously a better team with Haugh than without, he wasn\u2019t needed in Tuesday\u2019s win when Florida put up 108 points en route to the blowout win. In Florida\u2019s first win over Kentucky back in February, Haugh put up 17 points and eight rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>Ascending star<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-8\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6a\">Tuesday\u2019s win aside, Haugh\u2019s ascent this season has been a massive reason why the Gators are in contention to go back-to-back in March Madness. He flirted with the NBA Draft before returning to Gainesville, and the decision has paid off. Haugh has gone from a rotational role player to a potential lottery pick in the upcoming NBA Draft.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-9\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6d\">After starting just seven games over his first two seasons with Florida, Haugh had started every game this season prior to missing Tuesday\u2019s game. He\u2019s averaging 17.1 points per game and is bringing down 6.2 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-10\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6g\">The Gators are considered a 6.5-point favorite for today\u2019s game.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-11\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6j\">Tipoff is at 4 PM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Florida gets ready to take on Kentucky for the regular season finale, the main concern for Gator&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-182405","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\/182405","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=182405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}