CHAMPAIGN, Ill.– Fighting Illini guard Keaton Wagler is a 2025-26 NCAA Consensus All-American. Wagler has made history, earning a spot on the second team to become the first freshman in school history to garner Consensus All-America accolades. With this achievement, Wagler will join the Illinois Basketball Honored Jerseys program at State Farm Center.
Wagler is the 17th Consensus All-American in Illini history, and the fourth in the last six seasons during the Brad Underwood era.
Wagler Season Accolades
• NCAA Consensus All-America Second Team
• Jerry West Shooting Guard of the Year Award Winner
• Wooden Award All-America Team
• NCAA Tournament South Regional Most Outstanding Player and All-South Regional Team
• First-Team All-American by CBS Sports and Bleacher Report
• Second-Team All-American by The Sporting News, Associated Press, NABC, USBWA, and Field of 68
• Big Ten Freshman of the Year and First-Team All-Big Ten
• NABC All-Great Lakes District First Team
• Oscar Robertson High-Major Player of the Month (January)
• National Player of the Week (Jan. 26)
• Six-time Big Ten Freshman of the Week (Dec. 15, Jan. 5, Jan. 12, Jan. 26, Feb. 2, & Feb. 16)
2025-26 Consensus All-Americans
First Team
Darius Acuff, Arkansas
Cameron Boozer, Duke
AJ Dybantsa, BYU
Yaxel Lendeborg, Michigan
Braden Smith, Purdue
Second Team
JT Toppin, Texas Tech
Joshua Jefferson, Iowa State
Keaton Wagler, Illinois
Kingston Flemings, Houston
Thomas Haugh, Florida
Caleb Wilson, North Carolina
Illinois All-Time Consensus All-Americans
First Team
2022 Kofi Cockburn
2021 Ayo Dosunmu
2005 Dee Brown
1952 Rod Fletcher
1945 Walt Kirk
1943 Andy Phillip
1942 Andy Phillip
1940 Bill Hapac
Second Team
2026 Keaton Wagler
2021 Kofi Cockburn
2006 Dee Brown
2005 Luther Head
2005 Deron Williams
1990 Kendall Gill
1987 Ken Norman
1949 Bill Erickson
1947 Andy Phillip
