MEMPHIS, Tenn. – One day after garnering American Conference Player of the Year and All-AAC First Team honors, Memphis sophomore PJ Haggerty has been named to the 2024-25 The Sporting News All-America Second Team announced Tuesday.
A 8-time AAC weekly award winner this season and on most every national player of the year list, Haggerty leads the league and is fifth nationally in scoring at 21.2 points per game.
The Crosby, Texas product is also fourth in the country in made free throws (190) and seventh in free throws attempted (238). He leads the AAC with 21 games of 20-plus points and is also tops on the Tigers in minutes per game (36.5), assists per game (3.8), total assists (117) and total steals (56).
Haggerty is the only player in the country currently averaging at least 21.0 points, 5.0 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 1.5 steals per game. He scored his 1,000th-career point on Jan. 5 against North Texas with a 27-point outing.
The Sporting News is annually the first of the acknowledged NCAA consensus All-American selections to announce its team each year, but Haggerty has already earned All-America honors from Andy Katz (First Team) and College Hoops Today (Third Team). He is also a top-5 finalist for the Jerry West Shooting Guard of the Year Award, a top-15 finalist for the Wooden Award, and landed on midseason watch lists for the Oscar Robertson Trophy and the Naismith Trophy.
The Sporting News All-America Team
First Team – Johni Broome (Auburn), Walter Clayton (Florida), Cooper Flagg (Duke), Mark Sears (Alabama), Braden Smith (Purdue)
Second Team – PJ HAGGERTY (MEMPHIS), Eric Dixon (Villanova), Kam Jones (Marquette), John Tonje (Wisconsin), JT Toppin (Texas Tech)
Third Team – LJ Cryer (Houston), Ryan Kalkbrenner (Creighton), Chaz Lanier (Tennessee), RJ Luis (St. John’s), Zakai Ziegler (Tennessee)
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