KANSAS CITY, MO. (March 24, 2021) – The National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) announced today that Trevor Hudgins of Northwest Missouri State University has been selected as the 2021 NABC Division II Player of the Year powered by ShotTracker. He was also named the 2021 Division II Conference Commissioners Association Men’s Basketball Ron Lenz National Player of the Year.

Hudgins is leading the Bearcats into the NCAA Division II Elite Eight championship in Evansville, Ind., with a 25-2 won-lost record.  The six-foot, 180-pound junior guard from Manhattan, Kan., has started every game in three seasons at Northwest Missouri State, which has a 94-3 won-lost record since Hudgins arrived. He earned MIAA Player of the Year honors for the second straight season, averaging 20.1 ppg, with 127 assists and 36 steals while hitting on 54.5% of his field goal attempts, 52.5% of his three-point attempts and 89% of his free throws.

Hudgins (Manhattan, Kansas) is the second Bearcat to capture the NABC NCAA Division II Player of the Year Award. Justin Pitts won the award in the 2017 season, which saw the Bearcats capture the program’s first national championship.

Hudgins stands atop the D2CCA Men’s Basketball All-America Teams that were voted on by the NCAA Division II members of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).

Hudgins is joined on the first team by two other repeat first-team honorees in Daemen senior center Andrew Sischo and West Texas A&M junior guard Qua Grant. Hudgins’ teammate and senior forward Ryan Hawkins also garnered first-team accolades as did Northern State junior forward Parker Fox.

Hawkins, a two-time MIAA first-team All-League selection, is averaging 22.0 points and 8.5 rebounds while Fox, the NSIC North Division Player of the Year, produced nearly a “double-double” with 22.3 points and 9.9 rebounds per game for the Wolves (19-2).

The No. 2-seeded Bearcats (25-2 overall) will match up with the No. 7 seeded West Liberty University Hilltoppers (18-4 overall) in the Elite Eight tonight at 6 p.m. in Evansville, Indiana.