On the heels of a 16-2 conference record and the Southeastern Conference regular season championship, Florida men’s basketball earned an array of conference honors with three All-SEC recognitions and four individual league honors.
 
The Gators had a league-best three players on All-SEC teams, as Thomas Haugh picked up first-team honors, Rueben Chinyelu second-team and Alex Condon third-team. Todd Golden earned SEC Coach of the Year honors, and Chinyelu added both SEC Defensive Player of the Year and SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year recognition while Urban Klavžar garnered SEC Sixth-Man of the Year accolades. Florida had three players honored on the coaches’ All-SEC team for the first time since 2014.
 
The Gators cleared the SEC field by three games, just the second time in the last decade the SEC has seen that margin in the conference race (UK, 2020). In the process, Golden became just the third coach in SEC history to post 100 wins through his first four seasons at an SEC school (John Calipari, Tubby Smith). The Gators posted a +17.0 scoring margin in league play, the second-highest by any team this century (Florida, +17.6, 2012-13).
 
Haugh earns his first career SEC postseason honors with the first-team nod. Haugh leads the Gators in scoring at 17.2 points per game and has 13 games this season with 20+ points. The New Oxford, Pa., native averaged 17.5 points and 5.8 rebounds in SEC play. He is the fourth different player to earn first-team All-SEC honors in four seasons under Golden, joining Walter Clayton Jr. (2025), Zyon Pullin (2024) and Colin Castleton (2023).
 
Chinyelu becomes the second player in SEC history to earn both SEC Defensive Player of the Year and SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year recognition, along with Gator great Patric Young (2014). In the classroom, Chinyelu holds a 3.48 GPA as a sociology major. He has established himself as a force not only in the middle of the Gators’ elite defense, but capable of slowing down opponents of any size or speed. From Enugwu-Agidi, Nigeria, Chinyelu is the NCAA’s top rebounder (11.7 rpg) and on pace to be the first Gator in 50 years to post a double-figure rebounding average. He rebounded at an even higher rate in league play, pulling down 12.3 boards per game.
 
Out of Perth, Australia, Condon has picked up SEC postseason honors every year of his collegiate career. He earned third-team All-SEC honors for the second straight year after earning All-Freshman honors in 2024. Condon’s 15.1 points and 6.8 rebounds per game in league play both ranked second on the team. He is also one of two major conference players averaging at least 14 points, 7.5 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game overall this season (Cameron Boozer, Duke).
 
Klavžar has been an invaluable contributor sparking Florida’s offense off the bench to the tune of 10.7 points per game and a .439 3-point percentage in SEC play. During the Gators’ 11-game win streak to close out the regular season, the Domzale, Slovenia, native sniped at an even hotter pace hitting 27 of 55 long-range attempts (.491).
 
The Gators next head to Nashville, where they hold the top seed in the SEC Tournament. Florida opens play in the quarterfinal round at 1 p.m. Eastern on Friday, facing either Missouri, Kentucky or LSU.
 
2026 SEC Honorees

Coach of the Year: Todd Golden, Florida
Player of the Year: Darius Acuff Jr., Arkansas
Scholar-Athlete of the Year: Rueben Chinyelu, Florida
Newcomer of the Year: Dailyn Swain, Texas
Freshman of the Year: Darius Acuff Jr., Arkansas
Sixth-Man of the Year: Urban Klavžar, Florida
Defensive Player of the Year: Rueben Chinyelu, Florida
 
First Team
Darius Acuff Jr., Arkansas
Ja’Kobi Gillespie, Tennessee
Thomas Haugh, Florida
Labaron Philon Jr., Alabama
Tyler Tanner, Vanderbilt
 
Second Team
Nate Ament, Tennessee
Rueben Chinyelu, Florida
Mark Mitchell, Missouri
Otega Oweh, Kentucky
Dailyn Swain, Texas
 
Third Team

Rashaun Agee, Texas A&M
Alex Condon, Florida
Keyshawn Hall, Auburn
Aden Holloway, Alabama
Josh Hubbard, Mississippi State
 
All-Defensive Team
Rueben Chinyelu, Florida
Somto Cyril, Georgia
Felix Okpara, Tennessee
Billy Richmond III, Arkansas
Tyler Tanner, Vanderbilt
 
All-Freshman Team
Darius Acuff Jr., Arkansas
Amari Allen, Alabama
Nate Ament, Tennessee
Malachi Moreno, Kentucky
Meleek Thomas, Arkansas
 
Florida All-Time Individual SEC Honorees
Coach of the Year
2026 – Todd Golden
2017 – Mike White
2014 – Billy Donovan
2013 – Billy Donovan
2011 – Billy Donovan
1994 – Lon Kruger
1992 – Lon Kruger
 
Scholar-Athlete of the Year
2026 – Rueben Chinyelu
2014 – Patric Young
2013 – Patric Young
2012 – Patric Young
2010 – Ray Shipman
2007 – Lee Humphrey
2006 – Lee Humphrey
 
Sixth-Man of the Year
2026 – Urban Klavžar
2017 – Canyon Barry
2014 – Dorian Finney-Smith
2007 – Chris Richard
 
Defensive Player of the Year
2026 – Rueben Chinyelu
2014 – Patric Young
2006 – Corey Brewer