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2024-25 Men's Basketball

11 Devon Ellis

  • Pos F
  • Ht 6-7
  • Wt 225
  • Yr Junior
  • Hometown Schaumburg, Ill.
  • High School Conant
  • Prev School Maryland Eastern Shore / Link Year

Biography

2024-25: Played in 27 games and made eight starts… Averaged 4.8 points and 2.6 rebounds per game… Made his Valpo debut and scored 13 points in the Nov. 4 season opener vs. Liberty in Xenia, Ohio... Scored a team-high 16 points to go along with nine rebounds on Nov. 8 vs. Concordia Ann Arbor... Led the team with 19 points on Nov. 12 vs. Cleveland State... Scored 13 points on Nov. 21 vs. Lindenwood, his fourth straight game with 13 or more to start the season... Scored 12 points on Nov. 27 vs. Northern Illinois, his fifth time in six games tallying double figures. Threw down a poster dunk against the Huskies that ranked No. 1 on SportsCenter's Top 10 plays on ESPN that evening... Tallied eight points on Dec. 17 at Ohio State... Shot a perfect 5-for-5 from the floor while scoring 16 points on Dec. 22 vs. CCSJ... Had seven points and a team-high six rebounds on Jan. 1 at Missouri State... Pulled down four rebounds in 13 minutes on Feb. 22 at Southern Illinois.

2023-24 (Maryland Eastern Shore): Played 25 games and made 23 starts for Maryland Eastern Shore of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference in his first year of NCAA Division-I basketball... Shot 49.8 percent from the floor and 70 percent from the free-throw line while averaging 11.6 points and 4.4 rebounds per game... Scored in double figures 16 times including three games where he scored 20+ points... Set a season high with 22 points on Jan. 22 vs. Queens and matched that on Feb. 17 at Morgan State... Finished the season with 11 straight games of nine points or more, nine of which were double-figure scoring outputs... Also reached double figures in the rebounding department on two occasions including a season-high 12 on Jan. 8 at Coppin State.

2023-23 (State Fair CC): Started his collegiate career with a junior college season at State Fair Community College in Sedalia, Miss... Enjoyed a breakout season, earning first team all-region, first team all-conference and academic all-conference honors.

Prep: Spent 2021-22 season at Link Year Prep in Branson, Mo., where 11 of the 14 players on his team went on to play Division-I... The 2021 Conant High School product saw his senior season shortened due to COVID-19... Three-time all-area and all-conference selection.

Personal: Still has the video of his first in-game dunk, which was a “poster” slam at age 14 at AAU nationals in Orlando... Has studied business administration and plans to stay in the business realm... Also has an interest in marketing... Enjoys the outdoors and is good at snowboarding – something many may not expect for someone of his 6-foot-6 stature.

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