{"id":240542,"date":"2026-04-21T16:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T16:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/240542\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T16:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T16:26:08","slug":"haugh-staying-home-at-florida-for-senior-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/240542\/","title":{"rendered":"Haugh Staying Home at Florida for Senior Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida men&#8217;s basketball\u00a0All-America forward <a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/thomas-haugh\/17744\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17744\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Haugh<\/a> will return to UF for his senior season, he announced on Tuesday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\nHaugh is the third starter from the Gators&#8217; 2025-26 SEC championship team to announce his return for the 2026-27 season along with <a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/alex-condon\/17742\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17742\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Condon<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/boogie-fland\/17752\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17752\" target=\"_blank\">Boogie Fland<\/a>, while <a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/rueben-chinyelu\/17741\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17741\" target=\"_blank\">Rueben Chinyelu<\/a> is maintaining his eligibility throughout the NBA Draft process.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHaugh becomes the fourth player in program history to return to UF after making an All-America team, an elite list that consists of Haugh, Joakim Noah, Udonis Haslem and Neal Walk. (Five others have returned after earning AP All-America honorable mention.)<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe New Oxford, Pa., native has averaged 10.1 points and 5.3 rebounds throughout his three seasons at Florida, seeing his scoring average jump each season, from 3.9 as a freshman to 9.8 as a sophomore and 17.1 as a junior. Haugh has been a key part of the Gators&#8217; run of success to the 2025 NCAA and SEC Tournament championships and the 2026 SEC regular season championship.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHaugh earned second-team All-America honors from The Sporting News and NABC and third-team honors from the AP and USBWA last season, 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) as the only Gators to earn All-America honors from all four major selectors. Haugh also earned first-team All-SEC recognition and was a finalist for the Julius Erving Award.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHaugh, who came to Florida as a three-star prospect ranked outside the top 100 in 2023, currently stands in the top 50 in Florida history with 1,111 career points.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n2026-27 Season Ticket Deposits<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/am.ticketmaster.com\/gators\/en\/buy\/2026-27GatorsMensBasketballSeasonTicketDeposits?utm_source=WEB&amp;utm_medium=STORY&amp;utm_campaign=MBK-SEASON&amp;camefrom=CFC_GATORS_WEB_STORY_MBK-SEASON\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get in line for season tickets<\/a> by placing a $100 deposit per seat and you will be contacted to purchase as soon as tickets are on sale! Returning season ticket holders from the 2025-26 season need not place a deposit. Your seats are being held for you and renewal information will be sent to you.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida men&#8217;s basketball\u00a0All-America forward Thomas Haugh will return to UF for his senior season, he announced on Tuesday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-240542","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\/240542","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=240542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}