{"id":480416,"date":"2026-10-29T14:42:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T14:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/480416\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T14:42:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T14:42:23","slug":"haggerty-selected-to-coaches-preseason-all-sec-third-team-texas-am-aggies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/480416\/","title":{"rendered":"Haggerty Selected to Coaches\u2019 Preseason All-SEC Third Team &#8211; Texas A&#038;M Aggies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BIRMINGHAM \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/12thman.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/player\/pj-haggerty\" title=\"PJ Haggerty\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PJ Haggerty<\/a> of the Texas A&amp;M men\u2019s basketball team was named to the Coaches\u2019 Preseason All-SEC Third Team, the league office announced Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Haggerty was tabbed to the Jerry West Shooting Guard of the Year Top 20 Preseason Watch List earlier this week and was also selected to the Preseason All-SEC Third Team by the media. He led the Aggies in their lone preseason exhibition against SMU, scoring 28 points while adding four assists and four steals. Haggerty came to Aggieland after spending the 2025-26 season at Kansas State where he started all 31 games he appeared in. He ranked fourth nationally and second in the Big 12 averaging 23.4 points per game, while adding 5.3 rebounds and 3.8 assists for the Wildcats. The 6-4, 195-pound guard tallied five 30-point games on the year, scoring a season-high 37 against Mississippi State.\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Prior to his time in Manhattan, Haggerty made stops at Memphis and Tulsa after redshirting the 2022-23 season at TCU.\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>In 2024-25, he helped lead the Tigers to the NCAA Tournament after they claimed both an American Athletic Conference (AAC) regular season and tournament title. Haggerty was named a Second Team All-American by AP,\u00a0USBWA and\u00a0Sporting\u00a0News, and a Third Team All-American by the NABC. He also finished as a top-five finalist for the Jerry West Shooting Guard of the Year Award and a top-15 finalist for the John R. Wooden Award. The AAC Player of the Year played in all 35 games and averaged 21.7 points on 47.6-percent (248-of-521) shooting, adding 5.8 rebounds, 3.7 assists and 1.8 steals per game. Haggerty was invited to the NBA Draft Combine following his impressive sophomore season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Haggerty and the Aggies open the 2026-27 season Tuesday, Nov. 3 when they host Alabama State for a 7 p.m. tip at Reed Arena. Tickets are available <a href=\"https:\/\/12thmanfoundation.evenue.net\/events\/MBH\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Follow the Aggies<br \/>Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/12thman.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">12thMan.com<\/a> for more information on Texas A&amp;M men&#8217;s basketball. Fans can keep up with Aggie men&#8217;s basketball team on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/aggiembk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/aggiembk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0and X by following\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/aggiembk\" rel=\"nofollow\">@AggieMBK<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BIRMINGHAM \u2013 PJ Haggerty of the Texas A&amp;M men\u2019s basketball team was named to the Coaches\u2019 Preseason All-SEC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-480416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}