INDIANAPOLIS – Three Great Lakes Valley Conference men’s basketball standouts have been named to the preliminary watch list for the 2019 Bevo Francis Award, it was announced Tuesday by Small College Basketball.
Bellarmine University senior Adam Eberhard, Lewis University senior Kendale McCullum, and University of Southern Indiana senior Alex Stein are among the 50 NCAA Division II standouts that comprise half of the 100-man watch list made up of 50 other players from Division II, NAIA, USCAA and NCCAA.
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.
The list will be cut three more times before the winner is announced on April 8. Here are the important dates:
- Feb. 15, 2019: Top 50
- March 15, 2019: Top 25
- April 6, 2019: Finalists
- April 8, 2019: The 2019 Bevo Francis Award winner announced
The complete watch list can be found by
clicking here.