Dworsky, Sternberger make Bevo Francis Top 100 Watch List

SE Athletics
Matt Thomas, Sports Information Director

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Southeastern’s Adam Dworsky and Jett Sternberger have been named to the top-100 watch list for the 2022 Bevo Francis 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.

Dworsky, a senior from Flower Mound, Texas, is putting up 17.4 ppg and has a 40-ppoint game and a 30-point outing on the year while posting a Great American Conference best and sixth in the nation 7.4 assists per contest. Dworsky is a two-time GAC player of the Week on the season and is closing in on the top-10 in career assists for the NCAA.

Sternberger, a sophomore from Kingfisher, Okla., leads the Savage Storm in scoring at 19.7 ppg which ranks second in the league and his 55-point game earlier this season set a new record for Southeastern and the GAC for points in a game.

The duo make up two of the three players from the GAC selected to the watch list, with Oklahoma Baptist’s Burke Putnam joining Dworsky and Sternberger.

On February 15, the list will be reduced to the Top 50 players. One month later, on March 15, the Top 25 players will be announced. On April 2nd, the finalists of this year’s award will be announced, followed by the Bevo Francis Award winner being crowned on April 4.

The Bevo Francis Awards Committee consists of the following coaches: Tobin Anderson – St. Thomas Aquinas (N.Y.), Gary Stewart – Stevenson (Md.), Chris Briggs – Georgetown (Ky.), Bill Dreikosen – Rocky Mountain (Mont.), Ryan Kane – Ripon (Wisc.), Mark Berokoff – Oklahoma City, Mike Donnelly – Florida Southern, Rhett Soliday – Vanguard (Calif.), Sam Hargraves – Olivet (Mich.),
Stacy Hollowell – Loyola (La.), Stephen Brennan – Babson, Richard Westerlund – Great Lakes Christian, Chase Tiechmann – Florida College, Bart Lundy – Queens (N.C.), Aaron Siebenthall – Ottawa
(Kan.), Tae Norwood – Humboldt State, Justin Parnell – Oregon Tech, Mark Vanderslice – USC – Aiken and Grant Leep – Seattle Pacific.