Chester High's Rondae Jefferson is the 2011-12 Daily Times Player of the Year.

Jefferson averaged 12.1 points, 9.2 rebounds, 4.5 assists, 2.7 blocks and 2.6 steals per game for the Clippers (32-0), who won back-to-back PIAA Class AAAA titles and finished the season ranked No. 4 nationally by USA Today.

Three other notes on Jefferson: His 21 rebounds against Lower Merion in the District One Class AAAA championship established a school record. He totaled 14 double-doubles of points and rebounds. And he nearly had a quadruple-double in the regular-season finale, totaling 15 points, 15 rebounds, 10 assists and eight steals.

Rounding out the 2011-12 All-Delco team are: Chester senior forward Erikk Wright; Glen Mills senior center Raheem Harvey; Penn Wood senior guard Malcolm Richardson; Ridley senior Shawn Church; and Archbishop Carroll junior guard Yosef Yacob.

Barring breaking news and college commitments, this likely will be the final blog post here for a while. Check back regularly, just to be sure, and thanks for your consistent readership this season. It's been a fun one.

(Times staff photo / ERIC HARTLINE)

Who should make the All-Delco team?

You might say to yourself, 'Well, that was blunt.' But, hey, that's how this debate should go down, don't you think?

Each year, I like to open it up to the readers to see who they think should make the cut for this year's All-Delco boys basketball team. And even though my All-Delco team won't be announced until after the state playoffs, now you have a platform to do so.

I have only two stipulations for this open dialogue between readers:
1. Pump up your candidates without cutting down others.
2. No crass language or curse words.

That's it. Have fun and post away. I'll peek in periodically to see what everyone thinks.

Archbishop Carroll product Juan'ya Green is doing some pretty remarkable things at Niagara (4-8, 0-2). Take a look:

**19.1 points per game. That's what Green, the 2010-11 Daily Times Player of the Year, averages on a nightly basis -- good for 30th nationally and second among freshman.
**37.1 minutes per game. Part of the reason Green has been so effective is because he's staying in games. In 12 games for the Purple Eagles, he's yet to foul out. He ranks ninth nationally in playing time.

After reading those stats, you might wonder why Green -- a 6-3, 195-pound combo guard -- is at Niagara, in the MAAC. As a sophomore at Carroll, Green sprained his ankle and missed a couple games. As insignificant as that sounds, he fell off a lot of teams' recruiting radars because of it.

Either way, Green is making teams wish they had stuck around in Carroll's gym and recruited him. He's tearing it up at Niagara, and he got a well-deserved write-up from CBSsports.com this week. Check it out.

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You may have noticed Matt Chandik and Matt DeGeorge covering boys basketball games in the last few nights. (That's because I needed to use some vacation time around the holiday, or run the risk of losing it.)

Hey, they both did great jobs. So if you didn't read DeGeorge's write-up in Friday's paper on Upper Darby topping Garnet Valley, or Chandik's account in Saturday's paper on Interboro squeaking past Penncrest, here's your chance.

In this reporter's opinion, it's never too early to talk about All-Delco.

So let's have it.

Send e-mails (cvito@delcotimes.com), Tweet me (@chrisvito) or reply to this blog post. Let me know who you think deserves consideration for the All-Delco boys basketball team. I have my own list, which will get scribbled on and re-written about 10 more times, but it's always fun to see what the readers think.

The reigning Daily Times Player of the Year Aaron Brown, pictured, certainly made his impact felt last weekend with his Penn Wood teammates at the Brandon Jennings Invitational.

Only a few ground rules here:
1. Keep it clean.
2. Don't disrespect other players to strengthen your case.
3. Remember that only six make the cut, so give me your best half-dozen.

Have fun with it.