Small Faculty Basketball and the Nationwide Awards Committee launched its second watchlist for the Bevo Francis Award for the 2021-22 season. This checklist minimize the preliminary Jan. 15 top-100 gamers from DII, DIII, NAIA, USCAA, and NCCAA males’s faculty basketball down to simply 50.
The award was created in 2015 and is known as after Clarence “Bevo” Francis. Francis performed two seasons at what’s now the College of Rio Grande. In his first season, he led the group to a 39-0 report averaging 50.1 factors per recreation, highlighted by a 116-point efficiency in opposition to Ashland Faculty in Kentucky.
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Aston Francis of DIII males’s basketball Wheaton was the winner in 2019. Lincoln Memorial’s Emanuel Terry was the final winner from DII males’s basketball to deliver dwelling the award, profitable in 2018, averaging a double-double (16.9 factors, 10.3 rebounds per recreation) for the college that completed atop the DII males’s basketball regular-season rankings that season. The newest winner — Kyle Mangas — was from the NAIA and Small Faculty Basketball determined to not identify a winner within the abbreviated 2021 season.
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The checklist might be minimize two extra instances earlier than the winner is introduced on April 4. Listed below are the essential dates:
- March 15, 2022: Prime 25
- April 2, 2022: Finalists
- April 4, 2022: The 2022 Bevo Francis Award winner introduced
| NAME | YEAR | SCHOOL |
|---|---|---|
| Nyameye Adom | Sr. | Wheaton (IL) |
| Philip Alston | So. | California (PA) |
| Buzz Anthony | Sr. | Randolph-Macon |
| Marcus Azor | Sr. | UMass Dartmouth |
| Darryl Baker | Sr. | Talladega |
| Ryan Batte | Jr. | Thomas Extra |
| Kevion Blaylock | Sr. | William Penn |
| Levi Borchert | Jr. | UW-Oshkosh |
| Tray Buchanan | Sr. | Emporia State |
| Myles Burns | Sr. | Loyola (LA) |
| Bryce Butler | So. | West Liberty |
| Patrick Cartier | Jr. | Hillsdale |
| Romeo Crouch | Sr. | Embry-Riddle |
| Antwaan Cushingberry | Sr. | St. Francis (IN) |
| Jack Davidson | Sr. | Wabash |
| Conner Delaney | Sr. | John Hopkins |
| Kenny Dye | Jr. | Queens (NC) |
| David Ejah | So. | St. Francis (IN) |
| Jordan Visitor | Jr. | Lincoln Memorial |
| Armoni Foster | Jr. | Indiana (Pa) |
| Alex Gross | Sr. | Olivet Nazarene |
| Matthew Helwig | Sr. | North Central (IL) |
| Parker Hicks | Sr. | Lubbock Christian |
| Trevor Hudgins | Sr. | Northwest Missouri State |
| Josiah Johnson | Jr. | Mary Hardin Baylor |
| KJ Jones | So. | Emmanuel (GA) |
| Kyran Jones | Jr. | Georgetown |
| Josh Kashila | Jr. | SAGU |
| Matthew Leritz | Sr. | Illinois Wesleyan |
| Jaizec Lottie | Sr. | Flagler |
| Miles Mallory | So. | Randolph-Macon |
| Seth Maxwell | Sr. | Indiana Wesleyan |
| Riley Minix | Jr. | Southeastern (FL) |
| Karmari Newman | Sr. | William Penn |
| Tyler Riemersma | Sr. | Augustana (SD) |
| Pat Robinson | Sr. | West Liberty |
| Jaylon Scott | Sr. | Bethel (KS) |
| Matt Simpson | Sr. | Florida Faculty |
| Andrew Sischo | Sr. | Daemen |
| Jovan Sljivancanin | Sr. | Carroll |
| Jamari Smith | So. | Queens (NC) |
| Nick Smith | Sr. | Nova Southeastern |
| RJ Sunahara | So. | Nova Southeastern |
| Sekou Sylla | Jr. | Nova Southeastern |
| Evan Thomas | Jr. | Hope |
| Ryan Turell | Sr. | Yeshiva |
| Alex Van Kalsbeek | So. | Northwestern (IA) |
| Isaiah Wade | Sr. | Central Oklahoma |
| Mason Walters | Jr. | Jamestown |
| Zach Wrightsil | Sr. | Loyola (LA) |
