{"id":186229,"date":"2026-03-10T21:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T21:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/186229\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T21:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T21:07:10","slug":"florida-trio-golden-add-ap-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/186229\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Trio, Golden Add AP Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"

GAINESVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Florida men’s basketball added to its growing list of honors on Tuesday, as Rueben Chinyelu<\/a>, Alex Condon<\/a> and Thomas Haugh<\/a> all earned Associated Press All-SEC recognition and Todd Golden<\/a> garnered AP SEC Coach of the Year.
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\nHaugh and Chinyelu picked up first-team accolades and Condon second-team honors. The trio is the first at Florida to earn both AP and Coaches All-SEC honors since 2014, when Casey Prather, Scottie Wilbekin and Patric Young did so. It is the sixth time the coaches and media have both put three Gators on an All-SEC team (1994, 2002, ’04, ’07, ’14).
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\nGolden also swept the SEC Coach of the Year honors, as the Gators’ 16 league wins were the second-most in program history (18, 2014) and Florida cleared the SEC field by three games. Florida’s +17.0 scoring margin in SEC action was the second-most by any team this century (Florida, +17.6, 2013).
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\nThe Gators next head to Nashville, where they hold the top seed in the SEC Tournament. Florida opens play in the quarterfinal round at 1 p.m. Eastern on Friday, facing either Missouri, Kentucky or LSU on ESPN.
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\n2026 AP SEC Awards

\nCoach of the Year: Todd Golden<\/a>, Florida
\nPlayer of the Year: Darius Acuff Jr., Arkansas
\nFreshman of the Year: Darius Acuff Jr., Arkansas
\nNewcomer of the Year: Ja’Kobi Gillespie, Tennessee
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\nFirst Team
\nDarius Acuff Jr., Arkansas
\nRueben Chinyelu<\/a>, Florida
\nThomas Haugh<\/a>, Florida
\nLabaron Philon Jr., Alabama
\nTyler Tanner, Vanderbilt
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\nSecond Team
\nNate Ament, Tennessee
\nAlex Condon<\/a>, Florida
\nJa’Kobi Gillespie, Tennessee
\nJosh Hubbard, Mississippi State
\nDailyn Swain, Texas
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