Jerry Triplett III returns home. ‘If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em.’ But he makes 21st Century even better.

Jerry Triplett III returns home. ‘If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em.’ But he makes 21st Century even better.

This season has been a homecoming of sorts for 21st Century senior Jerry Triplett III, and a happy one at that. The 6-foot-2 guard/forward is in his first season with the Cougars after transferring from Andrean last spring. But even before he arrived, he knew players such as star senior guard Terrence Hayes Jr., senior guard Jacolby Donaldson and senior guard Ronald Mosley from Banneker Elementary School, the nearby YMCA or both. “It’s been real…