KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Jonathan Lawton from Florida Southern College and David Dennis from Nova Southeastern University advance to the Bevo Francis Award Top-50 list. The list was narrowed down from the Top-100 on February 15th.
Lawton leads the SSC in scoring with 23.0 points per game and is Top-10 in assists with 3.8 assists per game. Dennis leads the SSC in assists with 5.8 assists per game and is Top-10 in scoring with 15.6 points per game. Both were All-Sunshine State Conference First-Team members last season.
The Bevo Francis Award is given out every year to the most outstanding Small college basketball player at the end of the season. Francis, a legend in small college basketball, averaged 50.1 points per game for Rio Grande College in the 1953-54 season. The award is one of the biggest honors in college basketball because it is only given out to one player within small college basketball each season.
The list will be narrowed down to 25 names on March 15th. Finalists will be named on April 6th, followed by the eventual award winner on April 8th. To learn more about the award and to see the remaining Top-50 names, click
here.