Wabash College senior basketball players Jack Davidson and Tyler Watson earned places on the D3hoops.com Men's All-Region 7 Team, announced Tuesday morning. Davidson was named the Region 7 Player of the Year in addition to receiving First Team honors. Watson was named to the All-Region 7 Third Team. Wabash head coach Kyle Brumett was also honored as the Region 7 Coach of the Year.
 
Davidson, Watson, and Brumett are part of a Wabash team that will play in Friday's second NCAA Division III Men's Basketball semifinal game against Elmhurst College. The Little Giants will play in the semifinals for the first time since winning the DIII national championships in 1982. Wabash won both the North Coast Athletic Conference regular-season and conference tournament titles to earn a berth in the NCAA tournament. The Little Giants defeated Berry College, Emory University, Williams College, and Illinois Wesleyan University to advance to the semifinal contest in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Wabash is 28-3 overall this season and owns a 24-game winning streak, the longest in school history.
 
Davidson ranks third in the nation in scoring by averaging 25.7 points per game. He was named the North Coast Athletic Conference Player of the Year for the second time in his career and earned the U.S. Basketball Writers Association DIII Men's Basketball Player on two different occasions this season. Davidson scored 97 points in three North Coast Athletic Conference Tournament games to lead the Little Giants to the title for the first time in school history to secure the school's first NCAA Tournament berth since 1998. He was named to the Bevo Francis Award Top-50 Watch List. The award is presented annually to the small college basketball player who has had the finest overall season.

Davidson leads the nation in three-point field goal shooting percentage by hitting 49.0 of his shots behind the arc. His 122 made three-point baskets is the most by an NCAA DIII player this season. Davidson ranks first in free throws made (200), total points this season (796), and seventh in free throw shooting percentage (90.8 percent) among DIII players. Davidson is the all-time leading scorer in Wabash basketball history with 2,443 points. He also owns Wabash career records for free throws made (708), games started and played (109), and is second in three-point field goals made (323) and assists (376).
 
Watson received D3hoops.com All-Region honors for the first time in his career. A First Team All-NCAC selection, he was also named to NCAC All-Tournament Team.  Watson ranked second in the conference and is currently 31st in the nation in assists with an average of 5.4 per game. His total of 168 assists is a Wabash single-season record and ranks ninth among Division III players this year. Watson ranks 21^st in the nation in assist-to-turnover ratio (2.71). He finished sixth in the conference in scoring with a 15.9 points-per-game scoring average.
 
Brumett is in his eighth season as the head coach of the Wabash program and his 16^th season overall as a college basketball head coach. He owns a record of 126-75 with the Little Giants, winning his 100^th game earlier this season. Brumett is 262-154 overall after stints with Lakeland and Defiance. This is Brumett's first Regional Coach of the Year award.