Bio

As a senior
College Sports Madness NEC Player of the Year ... College Insider NEC Most Valuable Player ... Rhode Island Media Division I Player of the Year ... USBWA All-District Team ... NABC All-District First Team ... All-NEC First Team ... College Sports Madness All-NEC First Team ... NEC Player of the Week ... College Sports Madness NEC Player of the Week ... Unanimous Preseason All-NEC selection ... 2000-point scorer ... Finished his collegiate career as the program’s top player of the Division I era and among the best to ever don the Black and Gold ... Saw his best season yet as a senior in 2013-14, finishing the year with 595 points and 262 rebounds while shooting a career-high 57.7 percent from the field (225-390) ... Posted a career high on the block (26) and career low in turnovers (97) en route to becoming just the third player in Bryant history and sixth player in the Northeast Conference to surpass the 2,000-point threshold ... Francis also become the first player in NEC history to finished ranked inside the top 5 on both the all-time scoring (fifth, 2085) and all-time rebounding (fourth, 990) lists ... Both numbers are good for third all-time in the Bulldog record books and stand atop the school’s Division I marks ... As a senior, Francis led the team in rebounds (8.2/game), field goals made (225), shooting percentage (.577), total points (595) and minutes played (36.0/game) and ranked second in scoring (18.6 ppg), steals (37) and blocks (26) ... Ranked in the NEC’s top 5 in scoring (fourth), rebounding (second), field goal percentage (first), offensive rebounds (second), defensive rebounds (first) and minutes played (first) ... His .577 shooting percentage and 225 made field goals both ranked 19th nationally at season’s end ... Ranked in the NCAA’s top 100 in double-doubles (37th), minutes per game (52nd), points per game (62nd), total points (74th), rebounds per game (80th) and total rebounds (89th) ... Scored his 2,000th-career point at Wagner on Feb. 16 ... Graduates as the program's all-time leader in rebounds and free throws attempted and is ranked in the all-time top 10 in free throws made (second), field goals attempted (second), rebounding average (second), points (third), field goals made (third), games started (third), field goal percentage (fifth), games played (fifth) and scoring average (sixth) ... Recorded double-digit scoring in 27 games with six of the contests of 25 points or more ... Finished his career with 108 double-digit point outings in four seasons ... Posted 11 double-doubles in 2013-14 to finish his career with 37 ... Amassed 41 career 20-point outings, including 16 as a senior ... Pulled in double-figure rebounds 12 times in 2013-14 to finish his career with 38 such efforts ... Finished his four-year career with a lifetime .543 shooting percentage, averaging 17.0 points per game and 8.0 rebounds per outing across 123 career games and 108 career starts ... The New York native led his team in scoring 61 times and in rebounding on 92 occasions throughout his four-year career.

As a junior
Put together one of the finest seasons in Bulldog basketball history en route to a First Team All-Northeast Conference selection (the first of his career) … Earned starts in all 31 games this season for the Black and Gold, finishing the season ranking second on the team in scoring with a career-high 17.4 points per game … Also posted career-highs in rebounds (267) and rebounds per game (8.6) … Eclipsed the 1,000 point mark on Nov. 17 vs. New Hampshire, becoming just the 32nd player in Bryant men’s basketball history to do so … Ranked in the top five in the NEC in scoring (fifth), rebounding (third), field goal percentage (third), offensive rebounds (fourth) and defensive rebounds (fourth) … Shot an astounding .569 from the field, ranking 18th best in the country … Earned a pair of NEC Player of the Week honors on Jan. 14 and Feb. 4 … Also named College Sports Madness NEC Player of the Week twice … Recorded a career-best 10 double-doubles, including a monster 26 points and a career-high 18 rebounds at Central Connecticut State on Jan. 12 … Led the Bulldogs in scoring 13 times in 2012-13, including a season-high 27 points at Fairleigh Dickinson on Jan. 31 … Eclipsed the 20-point mark 10 times, recording double-digits scoring outputs in all but two contests … Led the Bulldogs in rebounding in 26 of 31 games this season … Put up 25 points, eight boards, two blocks and a steal in 40 minutes of play vs. Mount St. Mary’s in Bryant’s first-ever NEC Tournament appearance on March 6 … Played a season-high 43 minutes vs. the Mountaineers in an overtime thriller at the Chace Athletic Center on Jan. 17, scoring 25 points (11-12 from the field) and snatching seven rebounds in the victory … Finished his junior campaign needing just 510 points and 272 rebounds to become the first player in NEC history with 2,000 points and 1,000 rebounds in a career.

As a sophomore
Led the Bulldogs in nearly every offensive category for the second-straight season, remaining one of the Northeast Conference's top offensive threats in a stellar sophomore campaign ... Appeared in all 30 games, starting in 22 and playing just under 1000 minutes on the year ... Paced the team in total points (509), points per game (17.0), rebounds (222), rebounds per game (7.4), field goal percentage (.512), field goals made (185), field goals attempted (361), free throws made (126), free throws attempted (189), offensive rebounds (63) and defensive rebounds (159) ... Ranked in the NEC's top 10 in points per game (6th), rebounds per game (7th), defensive rebounds (7th), field goal percentage (10th) and minutes played (10th) ... One of just 10 players in the league and the only player on the team to eclipse the 500-point mark for the season ... Recorded all eight of the Bulldogs' double-double performances on the year, including posting 17 points and 13 rebounds in a near upset over crosstown and BIG EAST rival Providence College on the road ... Led the team in scoring 17 times and in 20 of Bryant's 30 contests ... Scored double-digit points in all but a single contest, posting the Bulldogs' top two single-game point performances of the season with 30 points against Quinnipiac on Jan. 21 and 29 against Southern Utah on Nov. 13 ... Recorded 20 points or more nine times ... Also recorded the team's individual game high in field goals made (10 at Notre Dame, vs. Southern Utah), rebounds (career-high 14 at Army) and steals (career-high 4 at Sacred Heart) ... Shot 50 percent or better from the floor in 19 contests ... Added 46 assists, five blocks and 22 steals on the season ... Needs just 48 points to become the program's 32nd 1,000-point scorer.

As a freshman
Enjoyed one of the finest rookie campaigns in program history, appearing in all 30 games while earning 23 starts as a freshman and emerging as one of the conference's future stars ... Named the Northeast Conference Rookie of the Year ... Also named to the NEC All-Rookie Team ... Six-time NEC Rookie of the Week selection ... Led the team in nearly every offensive category, including total points (443), scoring average (14.8 ppg), field goal percentage (.507), rebounds (239), rebounding average (8.0), field goals made (170), field goals attempted (335), free throws made (103) and blocks (16) ... Finished the season as the highest scoring rookie in the NEC, ranking ninth among all players at 14.8 ppg ... His 50.7 percent shooting accuracy ranked eighth in the conference and tops among first-year players ... Also ranked in the league's top-5 in rebounding (4th, 8.0 rpg), defensive boards (4th, 5.3/game) and offensive rebounds (5th, 2.67/game), all tops on the rookie circuit ... Saw his best performance of the season and one of the top performances of any player nationwide Feb. 24 at Long Island, dropping 43 points on the eventual NEC champ and NCAA tournament qualifier after shooting at a 20-for-27 clip from the floor to set career highs in points and field goals in a game ... His 43 points marked the third-highest individual scoring effort in program history (most in DI era) and set an NEC freshman record ... The outing was the highest point output of any player in the NEC since February 2003 and is tied for ninth all-time on the conference's single-game charts ... His 20 field goals against the Blackbirds were second-most in school history (most in DI era), set a new NEC single-game standard, and were good for the most by any player nationwide this season ... The 43 points also went down as the highest single-game scoring performance of any Division I rookie in the nation in 2010-11 and tied as the fifth-most of any player all season long ... Even more impressively, Francis's 43 points came from off the bench, tying him for the second-most bench points scored in Division I in the past 15 seasons ... Made his Bulldog debut at Cleveland State on Nov. 12, dropping 16 points on a 7-for-10 shooting effort from the field ... Shot 72.7 percent from the field (23 points) against Oberlin on Dec. 29 ... Pulled in a personal-best 13 boards at Brown on New Year's Eve, adding to his 21 points scored ... Finished his freshman campaign with eight double-doubles, including back-to-back such outing in his first two collegiate games ...  Also posted double-doubles against Brown (21p, 13r), LIU (18p, 10r), Sacred Heart (12p, 11r), St. Francis (NY) (25p, 10r), and back-to-back games against CCSU (12p, 10r and 10p, 11r) ... Finished the year with his 25-point game at St. Francis (NY), hitting 8-of-15 from the field while tying a personal best with nine free throws.

Before Bryant
A 2010 graduate of Holderness Prep School in New Hampshire, where he was a four-year varsity letterwinner ... Also a two-year letterwinner in lacrosse.

Personal
The son of Earline Anderson, Alex Francis was born June 12, 1991.

Career Highs
Points: 43 at Long Island (2/24/11)
Rebounds: 18 at Central Connecticut (1/12/13)
Assists: 6 vs. CCSU (2/22/14)
Steals: 4 at Sacred Heart (2/8/12)
Blocks: 3, twice (last at Long Island, 3/1/14)
Field Goals Made: 20 at Long Island (2/24/11)
Field Goals Attempted: 27 at Long Island (2/24/11)
3-Point FG Made: 3 at Saint Francis (PA), 2/18/12
3-Point FG Attempted: 4, twice (last Saint Francis U., 2/18/12)
Free Throws Made: 11, twice (last vs. Saint Francis U., 1/9/14)
Free Throws Attempted: 18 vs. Delaware (12/21/13)
Minutes: 45 vs. Delaware (12/21/13)