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Bryce Monroe Named to 2025 Bevo Francis Top 100 Watch List

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The National Awards Committee and Small College Basketball are happy to announce the Bevo Francis Top 100 Watch List for the 2024-25 season. Three months into the season, this year's list is made up of some of the best players from NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III, NAIA, USCAA, and NCCAA.

John McCarthy had this to say about this year's Top 100 list: 
 
"Congratulations to all 100 players that are on the Bevo Francis Award Watch List of 100 Players," stated McCarthy. "This is a remarkable accomplishment to be listed as one of only 100 out of approximately 13,000-16,000 players that compete at the NCAA DII, NCAA DIII, NAIA and NCCAA levels. I want to emphasize that, while this is ultimately an individual award, we focused on team success as an important criteria for this list, and for this award."
 
The Clarence "Bevo" Francis Award is presented annually to the player who has had the finest overall season within Small College Basketball. Considerations will be season statistics and individual achievements, awards, personal character and team achievements. This is an incredibly
prestigious award, as this award will only be given to one player within Small College Basketball per season.
 
2025 marks the eighth year of the Bevo Francis Award. Past winners include Dominez Burnett of Davenport University in 2016, Justin Pitts of Northwest Missouri State University in 2017, Emanuel Terry of Lincoln Memorial University in 2018, Aston Francis of Wheaton College in 2019, Kyle Mangas of Indiana Wesleyan University in 2020 and Trevor Hudgins of Northwest Missouri State University in 2022. In 2023, RJ Sunahara of Nova Southeastern was named the winner, while in 2024 Elijah Malone of Grace College received the honor. The award was not presented during the 2021 season.

John McCarthy added this about the Bevo Francis Award:

"This is a very challenging, difficult, and somewhat agonizing process, and I truly appreciate a great amount of insight and information from our National Awards Committee," mentioned McCarthy. "Once again, congratulations to each and every player on this list. What an honor! Importantly, I greatly appreciate the University of Rio Grande for their continued support of the Bevo Francis Award, as they have been supporting this award since inception during the 2015-16 season. We are truly grateful."

On February 15th, the list will be reduced to the Top 50 players. One month later on March 15th, the Top 25 players will be announced. On April 5th, the finalists of this year's award will be announced, followed by the Bevo Francis Award winner being crowned on April 7th.
 
The Bevo Francis Awards Committee consists of the following coaches: Gary Stewart - Stevenson (Md.), Chris Briggs - Georgetown (Ky.), Bill Dreikosen - Rocky Mountain (Mont.), Mark Berokoff – Oklahoma City, Mike Donnelly – Florida Southern, Sam Hargraves – Olivet (Mich.), Richard
Westerlund – Great Lakes Christian, Chase Tiechmann – Florida College, Aaron Siebenthall – Ottawa (Kan.), Mark Vanderslice – USC – Aiken, Matt O'Brien – Southwestern (KS), Chris Wright – Langston (OK), Ben Thompson – Emory & Henry, Justin Leslie – Midwestern State, Raul Placeres – Maryville College (TN), Chris Martin – Loras (IA), John Lamanna – Whitman (WA), Brian Miller – MSOE, Justin Downer – Point Loma Nazarene.

To stay up to date on all things Small College Basketball or to learn more about the Bevo Francis Award, please head to smallcollegebasketball.com.
 
2024-25 Bevo Francis Award Watch List
Tray Alexander 5'10" Sr. Pace
Nate Amado 6'3" Sr. Babson
Jack Bachelor 6'2" So. Washburn
Braxton Benham 6'1" Sr. Berry
Benjamin Bill 6'10" So. Daemen
Jamir Billings 5'11" Sr. Wooster
Jadin Booth 6'2" Sr. Florida Southern
Caedmon Bontrager 6'7" So. Indiana Wesleyan
Adam Brazil 5'10" Sr. Hampden-Sydney
Octavio Brito 6'4" Sr. Keene State
Ryan Broeckel 6'6" Sr. Wisconsin Lutheran
Jack Browder 6'4" Jr. Carson-Newman
Luke Burnett 6'2" Sr. Alabama-Huntsville
Andres Burney 6'9" Sr. Georgetown
Blake Campbell 6'4" Sr. Alabama-Huntsville
Quenton Coleman 5'10" Sr. Wayland Baptist
Ryker Cisarik 6'9" Sr. Nova Southeastern
Tyson Edmondson 6'5" Sr. Lake Superior State
Wes Enis 6'2" So. Lincoln Memorial
Jaquias Franklin 6'1" Sr. Georgetown
Elyjah Freeman 6'8" Fr. Lincoln Memorial
Demitri Gardner 6'4" Jr. Augusta
Jamal Gibson 6'8" So. Southern University (LA)
Hobert Grayson 6'6" Jr. Ouachita Baptist
Dallas Graziani 5'8" Jr. Nova Southeastern
Christian Green 6'6" So. Trinity (TX)
Jamison Guerra 6'0" Sr. Oregon Tech
Scott Gyimesi 6'6" So. Tufts
CJ Hall 6'2" Jr. Nelson
Alton Hamilton 6'8" So. Lewis-Clark State
Kaleb Hammeke 6'0" Sr. Fort Hays State
Jacob Hanna 6'3" Sr. Washburn
Luke Haupt 6'6" Sr. Point Loma Nazarene
Justin Hemphill 6'6" Sr. Daemen
Jahn Hines 6'4" Sr. Christopher Newport
Tristan How 6'7" Sr. New York University
Carter Huschka 6'7" Sr. Wisconsin Eau-Claire
MJ Iraldi 6'6" Sr. Nova Southeastern
Deonte Jackson 5'9" Sr. LeTourneau
Anthony Johnson 6'2" Jr. Cumberlands
Cameron Kahn 6'6" Sr. Dallas Baptist
Charlie Katona 6'7" Sr. MN Duluth
Reed Kemp 6'0" Sr. Maryville (TN)
Antwan Kimmons 6'0" Sr. Concordia-St. Paul
Drake Kindsvater 6'6" Sr. Washington (MO)
Jair Knight 6'2" Jr. Emory
Nick Koch 6'1" Jr. The College of New Jersey
Peyton Law 6'7" Jr. Freed-Hardeman
Jaylon Lee 6'9" Jr. Rocky Mountain
Jaden Lietzke 6'7" Sr. Oklahoma Wesleyan
Lucas Lorenzen 6'4" Jr. Dordt
Kaleb Lowery 6'8" Sr. The Masters
Russ Marr 6'3" Sr. Sewanee
E.J. Matthews-Spratley 6'2" Jr. Stockton
Lakeem McAiley 6'6" Sr. East Stroudsburg
Jalen McCoy 6'5" Sr. USC-Aiken
Erza McKenna 6'9" Sr. Mobile
Khalif Meares 6'3" Sr. Rowan
Vincent Miszkiewicz 6'8" Sr. Keiser
Latavious Mitchell 6'8" Sr. Florida Memorial
Ahamed Mohammed 6'1" Jr. West Texas A&M
Bryce Monroe 5'10" Jr. Langston
Shaunn Monroe 5'11" Sr. Lourdes
Drew Moore 6'4" Sr. Trine
Samaje Morgan 5'9" Jr. College of Idaho
Tommy Murr 6'1" Sr. Alabama-Huntsville
Kashie Natt 6'3" Sr. LSU Alexandria
Gabe Newhof 6'9" Jr. Spring Arbor
Jordan Oates 6'5" Sr. Salisbury
Francis Okwuosah 6'6" Sr. William Woods
Andrew Orr 6'8" Sr. Washburn
Christian Parker 6'6" Sr. Mount Union
Collin Parker 6'8" Sr. Columbia (MO)
Ben Pearce 6'1" Jr. Emory
Logan Pearson 6'4" Sr. Wisconsin-Platteville
Shane Regan 6'4" Sr. Wesleyan
Nick Reid 6'7" Sr. Upper Iowa
Joe Reuter 6'5" Sr. Hillsdale
Nick Roper 6'8" Sr. IL Wesleyan
Noah Schutte 6'4" Sr. Concordia (NE)
Ian Scott 6'7" Sr. Grace
Brayden Shorter 6'5" So. Washburn
Joey Skoff 6'3" Sr. Morningside
Aamari Smith 6'3" Sr. Whittier
Tristan Smith 6'5" Sr. Concordia (NE)
Lane Sparks 6'3" Sr. Huntington
Alex Steen 6'8" Jr. Florida Southern
Jacob Stoltz 6'0" Sr. Wisconsin Lutheran
DJ Talton, Jr. 5'8" Jr. OK Wesleyan
Marcus Tomashek 6'6" Jr. Michigan Tech
Caleb Van De Griend 6'8" Jr. Minot State
Joshua Van Gorp 6'10" Sr. Central (IA)
Alex Van Kalsbeek 6'6" Jr. Northwestern (IA)
Jesse Van Kalsbeek 6'6" Fr. Northwestern (IA)
Henry Vetter 6'5" Jr. Trinity (CT)
Joshua Ward 6'1" Jr. Palm Beach Atlantic
Anton Webb 6'8" Sr. Taylor
A.J. White 5'10" Jr. North Georgia
Kyreese Willingham 6'5" Sr. Minnesota State
Andrew Young 6'9" Jr. Missouri S&T

To stay up to date on all things Small College Basketball or to learn more about the Bevo Francis Award, please head to smallcollegebasketball.com. 

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