Peoples Signs With Berea College, Becomes Fifth Owens Men's Basketball Player To Sign With Four-Year School

DeVondre Peoples, pictured here against Edison Community College last year, has signed with Berea College in Kentucky. Photo by Geoff Roberts/Owens Sports Information
DeVondre Peoples, pictured here against Edison Community College last year, has signed with Berea College in Kentucky. Photo by Geoff Roberts/Owens Sports Information
Posted: Jun 23, 2014

By Nicholas Huenefeld/Owens Sports Information

Toledo, Ohio---DeVondre Peoples has signed with Berea College, an NAIA school in Kentucky, to become the fifth Owens men's basketball sophomore to sign with a four-year school.

Peoples averaged 3.3 points and 3.9 rebounds per game last year in his only season with the program. While playing in 24 games (three starts), he also posed a threat defensively with five games of at least two blocks and posted 11 games of at least five rebounds.

Peoples transferred to Owens from the University of Mobile in Alabama. He prepped at Consortium College Prep in Detroit, Mich.

Berea College finished 16-14 last year and advanced to the Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (KIAC) tournament semifinals.

The Owens men's basketball program finished 25-6 overall this past year, including an 11-1 record in conference play. The team captured the program's first conference championship since 2002-03 and advanced to the district championship game before falling to No. 1 Cincinnati State at the buzzer.

Notes

Along with Peoples, the Owens men's basketball program has sent 12 players to four-year schools, including five in each of the past two years. Those players include: Jordan Basinger (Siena Heights University, NAIA), James Kelly (University of Miami, Fla./Marshall University, NCAA Division I), Justin Edmonds (Marshall University, NCAA Division I), Joe Retic II (Liberty University, NCAA Division I), Jay Marquette (Lee University, NCAA Division II), Franklin Lindsey (Indiana Tech University, NAIA), Bikramjit Gill (Ball State University, NCAA Division I), Jerron Jamerson (Goshen College, NAIA), Markese Allen (Ohio Valley University, NCAA Division II), Andy Bachman (Tiffin University, NCAA Division II) and Tony Boykins (Gannon University, NCAA Division II).

Every sophomore from last year's Owens men's basketball team has signed with a four-year school. Additionally, eight players from the 2012-13 team have signed with four-year schools, and the 2013-14 team is on pace to break that mark next year.