{"id":233235,"date":"2026-04-15T20:36:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T20:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/233235\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T20:36:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T20:36:16","slug":"alex-condon-returning-to-florida-for-senior-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/233235\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Condon returning to Florida for senior year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alex Condon will return to Gainesville for a senior season with the Gators, per ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He made this decision despite ESPN\u2019s most recent mock draft<\/a> having the forward going No. 30 overall.<\/p>\n

The decision comes after Condon told The Gainesville Sun<\/a> on March 21 that he was 50-50 between going pro or returning to Gainesville for his senior season.<\/p>\n

Condon first declared for the draft following the 2024-25 season, where he received All-SEC Third Team honors after averaging 10.6 points and 7.5 rebounds per game. After going through the pre-draft process and working out with multiple NBA teams, the forward announced his decision to return to Florida for his junior season on May 27.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a long, thought out decision,\u201d Condon said on Sept. 22. \u201cI just thought the guys we had coming back here were too good and it was another opportunity to compete for a national championship so that\u2019s why I came back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Condon entered his junior season as a preseason AP All-American, the first Gator to receive this recognition since Joakim Noah in 2006-07.<\/p>\n

And while it took him some time to find his game, he did so right in time for Florida\u2019s late-season push, finishing the season averaging 15.1 points, 7.5 rebounds and 3.6 assists per game. That earned Condon All-SEC Third Team honors for the second-straight season.<\/p>\n

The Aussie finished the season with 12 straight double-digit scoring performances, including six outings with 20 or more points.<\/p>\n

One of his more dominant performances came earlier in the season against North Florida on Nov. 6. Condon finished Florida’s home opener with 25 points and 10 rebounds for his first double-double of the season.<\/p>\n

On Feb. 2, Condon was named Co-SEC Player of the Week after he logged 25 points, seven rebounds and six assists against then-No. 23 Alabama the day prior.<\/p>\n

In Florida\u2019s second-round matchup against Iowa in the NCAA Tournament on March 22, Condon had his 10th 20-point game of the season, recording a team-high 21 points and seven assists to go along with five rebounds.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s a tough one,\u201d Condon said after the Iowa game, \u201cI’m going to remember this feeling for a while. I’m just going to use it as motivation.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Condon enters his fourth season in Gainesville with 1,181 career points, putting him 41st among Florida\u2019s all-time scoring leaders and barely ahead of Gator great Taurean Green\u2019s 1,174.<\/p>\n

Contact Jeffrey Serber at Jserber@alligator.org. Follow him on X @JeffreySerber.<\/p>\n

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Jeffrey Serber<\/p>\n

Jeffrey is the spring 2026 men’s basketball beat reporter and a second-year journalism sports & media major with a media, management and production minor. In his free time, he enjoys hanging out with friends and family, and rooting for the Miami sports teams<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Condon will return to Gainesville for a senior season with the Gators, per ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania. He…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-233235","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\/233235","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=233235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}