{"id":196525,"date":"2026-03-18T16:16:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T16:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/196525\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T16:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T16:16:14","slug":"haugh-adds-nabc-usbwa-all-america-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/196525\/","title":{"rendered":"Haugh Adds NABC, USBWA All-America Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"_Hlk193052938\">Florida&#8217;s men&#8217;s basketball junior forward Thomas Haugh earned All-America status as a second-team selection from the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) and third-team from the U.S. Basketball Writers Association (USBWA), the respective organizations announced on Wednesday.<\/a><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHaugh earned a place on all four consensus selectors&#8217; All-America teams, previously receiving second-team honors from The Sporting News and third-team from the Associated Press.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe New Oxford, Pa., native is the second player in Florida history to earn an All-America selection from all four groups, joining <a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/walter-clayton-jr-\/16872\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"16872\" target=\"_blank\">Walter Clayton Jr.<\/a> (2025). Previously, Joakim Noah (2007) and Scottie Wilbekin (2014) each received recognition from three of the four consensus selectors.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe Gators open NCAA Tournament play on Friday in Tampa vs. either Lehigh or Prairie View A&amp;M.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nNABC Division I All-America Teams<br \/>\nFirst Team<br \/>\nDarius Acuff Jr., Arkansas<br \/>\nCameron Boozer, Duke<br \/>\nAJ Dybantsa, BYU<br \/>\nYaxel Lendeborg, Michigan<br \/>\nBraden Smith, Purdue<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSecond Team<br \/>\nKingston Flemings, Houston<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/thomas-haugh\/17744\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17744\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Haugh<\/a>, Florida<br \/>\nJoshua Jefferson, Iowa State<br \/>\nJT Toppin, Texas Tech<br \/>\nKeaton Wagler, Illinois<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThird Team<br \/>\nJaden Bradley, Arizona<br \/>\nJeremy Fears Jr., Michigan State<br \/>\nGraham Ike, Gonzaga<br \/>\nLabaron Philon Jr., Alabama<br \/>\nCaleb Wilson, North Carolina<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nUSBWA Men&#8217;s All-America Team<br \/>\nFirst Team<br \/>\nDarius Acuff Jr., Arkansas<br \/>\nCameron Boozer, Duke<br \/>\nAJ Dybansta, BYU<br \/>\nYaxel Lendeborg, Michigan<br \/>\nBraden Smith, Purdue<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSecond Team<br \/>\nKingston Flemings, Houston<br \/>\nJoshua Jefferson, Iowa State<br \/>\nJT Toppin, Texas Tech<br \/>\nKeaton Wagler, Illinois<br \/>\nCaleb Wilson, North Carolina<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThird Team<br \/>\nChristian Anderson, Texas Tech<br \/>\nJaden Bradley, Arizona<br \/>\nJeremy Fears Jr., Michigan State\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/thomas-haugh\/17744\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17744\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Haugh<\/a>, Florida<br \/>\nLabaron Philon Jr., Alabama<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHonorable Mentions<br \/>\nZuby Ejiofor, St. John&#8217;s<br \/>\nGraham Ike, Gonzaga<br \/>\nBennett Stirtz, Iowa<br \/>\nTyler Tanner, Vanderbilt<br \/>\nDarryn Peterson, Kansas<br \/>\nBrayden Burries. Arizona<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFlorida March Madness Open Practice Information<br \/>\nOpen practice for the Gators will take place on Thursday, March 19 from 4:15-4:45 p.m. at Benchmark International Arena. This event is free and open to the public.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncaa.com\/mens-final-four\/marchmadness#Tampa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa NCAA Site Fan Information<\/a><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nLocation:<br \/>\nBenchmark International Arena<br \/>\n401 Channelside Dr<br \/>\nTampa, FL 33602<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida&#8217;s men&#8217;s basketball junior forward Thomas Haugh earned All-America status as a second-team selection from the National Association&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-196525","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\/196525","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=196525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}