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.
 
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.

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.
 
About the National Association of Basketball Coaches
Located in Kansas City, MO, the NABC was founded in 1927 by Forrest "Phog" Allen, the legendary basketball coach at the University of Kansas.  Allen, a student of James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, organized coaches into this collective group to serve as Guardians of the Game.  The NABC currently has nearly 5,000 members consisting primarily of university and college men's basketball coaches.  All members of the NABC are expected to uphold the core values of being a Guardian of the Game by bringing attention to the positive aspects of the sport of basketball and the role coaches play in the academic and athletic lives of today's student-athletes.  The core values of being a Guardian of the Game are advocacy, leadership, service education and inclusion.  Additional information about the NABC, its programs and membership, can be found at nabc.com.