Wayne Cavadi | NCAA.com | February 15, 2019 24 DII basketball players featured on Bevo Francis Award top 50 Northwest Missouri State Athletics Share Small College Basketball released its updated watchlist for the Bevo Francis Award for the 2019 season. The first list was cut from the original 100 to 50 players from DII, DIII, NAIA, USCAA, and NCCAA men's basketball. The award was created in 2015 and is named after Clarence "Bevo" Francis. Francis played two seasons at what is now the University of Rio Grande. In his first season, he led the team to a 39-0 record averaging 50.1 points per game, highlighted by a 116-point performance against Ashland College in Kentucky. HISTORY: Francis highlights the best single-seasons in DII lore Lincoln Memorial's Emanuel Terry was the winner of the 2018 award. Aside from averaging a double-double (16.9 points, 10.3 rebounds per game) for the school that finished atop the DII men's basketball regular season rankings, Terry was known for highlight-reel dunks that garnered the nation's attention. Twenty-four DII men's basketball student-athletes comprise more than half of the list. Only Northwest Missouri State's Trevor Hudgins is a freshman. The list will be cut two more times before the winner is announced on April 8. Here are the important dates: March 15, 2019: Top 25 April 6, 2019: Finalists April 8, 2019: The 2019 Bevo Francis Award winner announced The complete watchlist is below in alphabetical order. NCAA DII TOURNAMENT WATCH: Sleepers | Standout freshman | Stat leaders | Undefeated teams Name Height Class School Buzz Anthony 5β11β So. Randolph-Macon Tommy Bolte 6β1β Sr. Concord (WV) Dalton Bolon 6β4β So. West Liberty Ben Boots 6β1β Sr. Wisconsin-Oshkosh Ryan Bruggeman 6β0β Sr. Southwest Minnesota State Chris Coffey 6β7β Jr. Georgetown Kendrick Colvin 6β6β Sr. Emmanuel (GA) Trevion Crews 6β0β So. Bethel (IN) Jack Davidson 6β1β So. Wabash Gage Davis 6β5β Sr. St. Cloud State Jayvian Delacruz 6β5β Sr. Pikeville David Dennis 6β0β Sr. Nova Southeastern Jacobo Diaz 6β9β Sr. Indiana (Pa) Adam Dieball 6β9β Sr. Christian Brothers Grant Dressler 6β7β Sr. Chaminade Adam Eberhard 6β8β Sr. Bellarmine Marcos Echevarria 5β10β Sr. Nichols Aston Francis 6β1β Sr. Wheaton Jeff Garrett 6β7β Sr. LSU-Shreveport Ryan Garver 6β3β Sr. Nebraska Wesleyan Tim Guers 6β3β Sr. St. Anselm Tonzell Handy 6β5β Sr. Tougaloo Juvaris Hayes 6β0β Jr. Merrimack Amir Hinton 6β5β Jr. Shaw Ty Hoglund 6β3β Jr. Dakota Wesleyan Daulton Hommes 6β8β Jr. Point Loma Trevor Hudgins 6β1β Fr. Northwest Missouri State Cameron Hunt 6β4β Sr. Southwestern (KS) Jamie Johnson 6β0β Sr. IU-Southeast Beau Justice 6β2β Sr. Valdosta State Jonathan Lawton 6β2β Sr. Florida Southern Anthony Lee 6β2β Sr. Kutztown Kyle Mangas 6β3β So. Indiana Wesleyan Cam Martin 6β9β So. Missouri Southern Justin Martin 5β9β Jr. Multnomah Kendale McCullum 6β1β Sr. Lewis Jordan Murdock 6β5β Sr. Friends (KS) Ty Nichols 6β3β Sr. Keene State Jonathan Patron 6β2β Sr. Plattsburgh Connor Raridon 6β6β Jr. North Central Nic Reed 6β5β Jr. Olivet Nazarene Ryan Richmond 6β1β Sr. Bentley Kyle Roach 6β5β Sr. Whitworth Andrew Sischo 6β9β So. Daemen Sam Vander Sluis 6β8β Sr. Cornerstone Wes Stowers 5β10β Sr. Marian Demitrius Underwood 6β2β Jr. Texas-Dallas Shaun Willett 6β4β Sr. Queens (NC) Joey Witthus 6β7β Sr. Northwest Missouri State Jay Wolfe 6β4β Sr. Briar Cliff MORE ON DII MEN'S BASKETBALL: Programs with the most titles | Top news DIII men's basketball star has faith untraditional path leads to the pros Though he had offers to play Division I ball, Ryan Turell chose to play in Division III at Yeshiva, a private Jewish school in New York City where he developed a close bond with his coaches and teammates. READ MORE These are the top 12 undrafted rookies to watch in NBA Summer League Andy Katz reveals his top 12 undrafted rookies to watch in NBA Summer League prior to the start of the Summer League on July 7. READ MORE These college basketball teams and conferences have the most NBA first-round draft picks Kentucky, North Carolina and Duke are the college basketball teams with the most first-round picks in NBA draft history. READ MORE