Philadelphia Inquirer Academic All-Area Team release
PHILADELPHIA – Joe Scibelli has been named to the 2018-19 Philadelphia Inquirer Academic All-Area Men's Basketball Team. Scibelli earns the honor for the first time in his career after leading the Fords to double-digit wins for this first time since the 2010-11 season after average a double-double throughout the year.
The team is voted on by the sports information offices of 30 area institutions from the Philadelphia metropolitan area. In order to be eligible for Academic All-Area honors, an athlete must be in at least his second year at the institution and hold a cumulative grade-point average of 3.20 or better.
In addition to his most recent honor, Scibelli became the program's fifth first-team All-Centennial Conference selection this year and the first since the 2011-12 campaign. He was also a three-time selection to the Centennial Conference Academic Honor Roll.
The only player to start all 25 games for Haverford this season, Scibelli became the first Centennial Conference player since the 2011-12 season to average a double-double as he finished the season with 17.2 points and 10.0 rebounds per game. Both of those marks were the highest in the Centennial Conference. During conference play, Scibelli's 16.7 points and 8.9 rebounds per game were also the highest marks among his Centennial peers. He also ranked third in the conference in free throw percentage (85.9%) and fifth in blocked shots (31).
Scoring his 1,000th career point at Washington College, Scibelli capped his career as the eighth leading scorer in program history with 1,291 career points. He also ranks fourth all-time in blocked shots (93), sixth in rebounds (739), ninth in three-point field goal percentage (35.5%), and 10th in minutes per game (28.3). Scibelli's 430 points scored this season is the ninth-highest single-season mark in school history and was the highest for Haverford player since the 2004-05 season. His stats from his senior season also rank him sixth for rebounds, seventh for field goals made, and eighth for blocked shots in Haverford's single-season record books.
Scibelli and the rest of the Fords led the men's basketball program to its highest overall and road win totals since the 2010-11 season as Haverford also posted its most Centennial Conference victories since the 2011-12 campaign. Among the Fords' notable wins was the team's first win over Dickinson since the 2012-13 season, a home win to make it five straight victories against Washington College inside Gooding Arena, the team's first road win and season sweep of Gettysburg in school history, and the first sweep of McDaniel in back-to-back seasons since the 2005-06 and 2006-07 campaigns.