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Small College Basketball and the National Awards Committee is proud to announce the Bevo Francis Top 100 Watch List for the 2022-23 season. The Top 100 Watch List consists of some of the top players from NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III, NAIA, USCAA and NCCAA.John McCarthy had this to say about this year's Top 100 Watch List: 

"Congratulations to the 100 players on the Bevo Francis Award Watch List, as this is a prestigious honor to be included on the list of only 100 players out of approximately 13,000-16,000 players at the small college levels," stated McCarthy. "This is an extremely challenging process for our committee, and I appreciate a great deal of information provided by our committee, and from coaches and supporters from throughout the country. Again, congratulations to the players on the Bevo Francis Watch List, and thank you to our committee." 

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. 

2023 marks the seventh 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. The award was not presented during the 2021 season. 

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 1st, the finalists of this year's award will be announced, followed by the Bevo Francis Award winner being crowned on April 3rd. 

The Bevo Francis Awards Committee consists of the following coaches: Gary Stewart – Stevenson (MD), Chris Briggs – Georgetown College (KY), Bill Dreikosen – Rocky Mountain (MT), Mark Berokoff – Oklahoma City, Mike Donnelly – Florida Southern, Sam Hargraves – Olivet, Stephen Brennan – Babson, Richard Westerlund – Great Lakes Christian, Chase Tiechmann – Florida College, Aaron Siebenthall – Ottawa (KS), Tae Norwood – Humboldt State, Mark Vanderslice – USC-Aiken, Grant Leep, Seattle Pacific, Matt O'Brien – Southwestern (KS), Chris Wright – Langston (OK), Nathan Champion – LeMoyne. 

2022-23 Bevo Francis Award Watch ListEthan Anderson 6'4" Sr. Wisconsin-Lacrosse

Kaden Anderson 6'8" Sr. Point Loma Nazarene 

Shaw Anderson 6'5" Jr. Seattle Pacific 

Raheem Anthony 6'4" Sr. St. Mary's (MN) 

Dejon Barney 6'9" Jr. IU South Bend 

Trevor Baskin 6'8" So. CO Mesa 

Diego Bernard 6'0" Sr. NW MO State 

Sam Beskind 6'4" Sr. CO School of Mines 

Jesse Bingham 6'6" So. Indianapolis 

Max Bjorklund 6'2" Sr. Northern Michigan 

Drew Blair 6'5" Sr. MN-Duluth 

Octavio Brito 6'4" So. Keene State 

Levi Borchert 6'5" Jr. UW-Oshkosh 

Marcus Boykin 6'1" So. Barton 

Jalen Brooks 6'5" Sr. LSU-Shreveport 

Anthony Brown 6'5" Sr. Mid-America Nazarene 

Julius Brown 5'10" Sr. West Texas A&M 

Fillip Bulatovic 6'5" Sr. Carthage 

Bryce Butler 6'5" Jr. West Liberty 

Rich Byhre 6'8" Sr. Rockhurst 

DJ Campbell 6'3" Jr. Stockton 

Jamal Cannady 6'1" So. Bryn Athyn 

Dan Carr 6'8" Sr. Augustana (IL) 

Frank Champion 6'7" So. North Georgia 

Taeshon Cherry 6'8" Sr. Marian (IN) 

Luke Chicone 5'10" So. John Carroll 

Cevin Clark 5'11" Jr. Southwestern (KS) 

Daniel Cook 6'6" Sr. St. John Fisher 

Tyshaun Crawford 7'1" Sr. Augusta 

Tyson Cruickshank 5'11" Sr. Wheaton (IL) 

Antwaan Cushingberry 5'8" Sr. St. Francis (IN) 

Frankie Davidson 6'7" Jr. Grace (IN) 

Vinny DeAngelo 6'1" Jr. Swarthmore 

Josiah De'laCerda 6'8" Sr. Ottawa (AZ) 

Omari DeVeaux 6'2" So. Virginia Wesleyan 

Ely Doble 6'6" Jr. Morningside 

Jacob Drees 6'7" Sr. Cedarville 

Nick Fort 6'6" Sr. Asbury 

Zach Goodline 6'1" Sr. Huntington 

Austin Grunder 6'6" Sr. Cortland 

Tristan Harper 6'6" Sr. Langston 

Jesse Hafemeister 6'5" Jr. Catholic 

Matt Helwig 6'4" Sr. North Central (IL) 

Jake Hilmer 5'11" Sr. Upper Iowa 

CJ Hines 6'1" So. Faulkner 

Jahn Hines 6'4" Jr. Christopher Newport 

Jarred Houston 6'10" Sr. Emerson 

Jason Hubbard 6'7" Sr. Taylor 

Trent Hudgens 6'1" So. Arizona Christian 

Jeff Hunter 6'7" Sr. Keene State 

Josiah Johnson 6'1" Sr. Mary Hardin Baylor 

Chaney Johnson 6'7" So. Alabama-Huntsville 

Reid Jolly 6'5" Jr. Thomas More 

KJ Jones 6'6" Jr. Emmanuel (GA) 

Shawndale Jones 6'3" Sr. IUP 

Jaeden King 6'6" Sr. St. Xavier 

Brandon Knapper 6'0" Sr. Cal State San Bernardino 

Akuel Kot 6'2" Jr. Fort Lewis 

John Paul Kromka 6'7" Sr. Pitt-Johnstown 

Zach Laput 6'4" Jr. Bentley 

Peter Lash 6'6" So. Nebraska Wesleyan 

Jaden Lietzke 6'7" Jr. Oklahoma Wesleyan 

Owen Long 6'3" Jr. Emporia State 

Drew Lutz 6'1" Sr. Bethel (IN) 

Rowan Mackenzie 6'3" Jr. Lubbock Christian 

Miles Mallory 6'5" Jr. Randolph-Macon 

Sam Masten 6'2" Sr. Northern State 

Seth Maxwell 7'0" Sr. Indiana Wesleyan 

Lakeem McAliley 6'6" So. East Stroudsburg 

Riley Minix 6'7" Sr. Southeastern (FL) 

Cody Mitchell 6'7" Sr. Illinois Wesleyan 

Jacksen Moni 6'10" So. Northern State 

Brendan Mora 6'5" Sr. Pomona-Pitzer 

Dave Morris 6'1" Sr. IUP 

Robert Osborne 6'5" Sr. Virginia Union 

Christian Parker 6'6" Jr. Mount Union 

Tylandrius Parks 6'5" Sr. Union (TN) 

Logan Pearson 6'4" Jr. Wisconsin-Platteville 

Carlos Pepin 6'7" Sr. East Stroudsburg 

Josh Pritchett 6'4" Sr. Evangel 

Chase Rankin 6'1" Sr. Lincoln Memorial 

Sesan Russell 6'2" Sr. Florida Tech 

Isaiah Sanders 6'5" Sr. Fairmont State 

Tyler Schmidt 6'4" Jr. Olivet Nazarene 

Joel Scott 6'7" Sr. Black Hills State 

Matt Simpson 6'1" Sr. Florida College 

Alex Sobel 6'8" Sr. Middlebury 

Bennett Stirtz 6'4" Fr. NW MO State 

RJ Sunahara 6'8" Jr. Nova Southeastern 

Josh Talbert 6'2" Sr. Randolph-Macon 

Adam Thistlewood 6'8" Sr. CO School of Mines 

Ryan Thissen 6'6" Jr. St. John's (MN) 

Blaise Threatt 6'3" So. CO Mesa 

Markelle Turner 6'2" Jr. Union (KY) 

Jo Valrie 6'5" So. Point Park 

Mason Walters 6'9" Sr. Jamestown 

Jaden Wells 6'1" So. Central Oklahoma 

Malik Willingham 6'3" Jr. Minnesota State 

Drew Wyman 6'5" So. College of Idaho 

Will Yoakum 6'5" Sr. Nova Southeastern

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