PCL 2021 Season Recap: Devon Prep
There was much uncertainty this season with how the 2021 Pennsylvania high school boys basketball season would commence, but luckily we were able to witness a season unlike any other. We witnessed the best teams reign supreme, but a number…
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Continue ReadingThere was much uncertainty this season with how the 2021 Pennsylvania high school boys basketball season would commence, but luckily we were able to witness a season unlike any other.
We witnessed the best teams reign supreme, but a number of surprises came through, especially in the Philadelphia Catholic League.
A few teams joined the league just a few years ago and struggled against elevated competition.
However, for Devon Prep, things turned the corner in 2021 as the ship was righted and the Tide finished league play with a 9-4 league record and 9-5 record overall.
It was the first time Devon Prep finished with an above-.500 record in league play for the first time since joining the PCL and nearly posted double-digit wins in the PCL.
IV Petit was the one player on the Tide to finish the season with double-figure scoring averages, but top-to-bottom, Devon Prep had a balanced scoring attack and allowed 55.6 PPG to opponents.
Opponents also shot just 33.6 percent from beyond the arc where the Tide flourished, shooting 37 percent as a team.
Four Devon Prep players shot 40 percent or better from the perimeter, including freshman Ty Mishock, who shot 42.9 percent from three, 44.9 percent from the field and averaged 8.7 PPG on the season, good enough for second-best on the team.
Mishock is going to be an impact shooter for the Tide for the next several years and the team’s leading scorer, Petit, was a junior. He averaged 14.2 PPG, 4.1 RPG and 2.3 SPG, setting the tone on the offensive end.
Seniors Chris Patton and Eamon Walsh both averaged around 8.0 PPG while shooting 41.8 percent and 47.8 percent from beyond the arc, respectively.
It was a shooting exhibition with these two players on the floor and Devon Prep was clicking on all cylinders when Patton and Walsh were getting open look after open look from three.
The Tide move incredibly well off-ball as things really clicked together in 2021, especially when it came to shooting. This team is one that relies on shooting the three and while they don’t live-or-die off it, they shoot it efficiently and with confidence.
Patton and Walsh combined for 5.4 RPG, 3.6 APG, and 2.7 SPG in their senior seasons, extremely impressive numbers in a league as tough as the PCL is year-in and year-out.
Six players on the Tide averaged 6.5 PPG or more on the season, the last two to mention being Jacon Holloway and Lucas Orchard, two standout players who combined to average 13.9 PPG, 7.4 RPG, 4.5 APG, and 3.7 SPG in 2021.
Orchard averaged 5.2 RPG and 2.6 SPG this season while Holloway shot 59.4 percent from the field and 50 percent from three for the Tide.
Devon Prep worked its way out of the basement of the PCL in a big way this season and expect nothing less from them in the coming years with an extremely impressive lineup that all contributes and plays together as a sound unit.