IU Basketball News and Notes

[HoosierHoopster]

On 11/5/2025 at 4:59 PM, str8baller said:

Well yea…that’s any program in any sport anywhere. We don’t need to extrapolate out failed experiments in Crean and Sampson. Cig and IU football prove that. 
 

It doesn’t make IU special. If anything we’re the opposite of whatever “special “ is since most programs can find that hire through sheer luck over 3 decades. But IU on the other hand…
 

We all are hoping Devries is the one to turn that around, of course. 

Any program in any sport anywhere?? Nope. Resources, foundation, facilities, general program recognition, media coverage/tv/web, recruiting base— connections to HS/AAU coaches/programs. Your perception of IU as the opposite of whatever special is, is crazy negative, couldn’t be less true. We’ve been run to ground by Miller and Woody, clearly. While you choose to deflect and ignore it, that Crean was able to do what he did - B1G championships and multiple SW16 runs despite being a mediocre coach is directly due to his “it’s Indiana” mantra. He rebuilt the program from nothing after Sampsongate into a successful program because of what IU is.
Now we have what I think is clearly a strong HC/basketball mind and staff again, and because of IU’s historical program stature, resources, facilities etc and all that comes with it, the path “back” is right there, not just “any” program anywhere. That’s not rose colored glasses, that’s reality 

[str8baller]

7 minutes ago, HoosierHoopster said:

Any program in any sport anywhere?? Nope. Resources, foundation, facilities, general program recognition, media coverage/tv/web, recruiting base— connections to HS/AAU coaches/programs.

None of that matters without the right coach. As we’ve proved for two decades now

[Stuhoo]

Field of 68 Goodman and Dauster post-win show. Most of this video is an on-air with Lamar. Our SG is one hell of a smooth, funny, guy. Great interview!

https://youtu.be/erEZe87ZYO0?si=vVagkmTA8mhbYFUg

[WayneFleekHoosier]

1 hour ago, Stuhoo said:

Field of 68 Goodman and Dauster post-win show. Most of this video is an on-air with Lamar. Our SG is one hell of a smooth, funny, guy. Great interview!

https://youtu.be/erEZe87ZYO0?si=vVagkmTA8mhbYFUg

Very likeable kid that is also fun to watch. Wish he had more time with him.  And several others for that matter. 

[coonhounds]

Very likeable kid that is also fun to watch. Wish he had more time with him.  And several others for that matter. 

I wish we had him and others longer however the success these kids have here will make it easier for coach to go out and get yhe kids he wants. So far I trust his judgment on who he wants and that is a good thing. I will be stoked to have a coach that I dont feel needs a top 5 kid to have success!

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[HoosierHoopster]

10 minutes ago, coonhounds said:

I wish we had him and others longer however the success these kids have here will make it easier for coach to go out and get yhe kids he wants. So far I trust his judgment on who he wants and that is a good thing. I will be stoked to have a coach that I dont feel needs a top 5 kid to have success!

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If you build it they will come

[NashvilleHoosier]

I take it the Louisville seat assignments haven't been released yet? I selfishly need a lot more and better options to be available on secondary sites, and I'm guessing anyone intending to sell doesn't yet know what seats they are selling. How far in advance were the Marquette seats assigned? 

[schoosier]

Where are the Europeans? One’s 6’10” and we need center help and the other supposed to be a stud guard. I honestly thought Enright would come off the bench and I see his role there down the stretch. 

[AZ Hoosier]

19 hours ago, schoosier said:

Where are the Europeans? One’s 6’10” and we need center help and the other supposed to be a stud guard. I honestly thought Enright would come off the bench and I see his role there down the stretch. 

The "big guy" (Andrej Acimovic) is redshirting and the PG (Aleksa Ristic) is injured, if I heard correctly.

EDIT: Corrected my statement. I had the two backwards.

[Hoosierfanyuh]

3 minutes ago, AZ Hoosier said:

The "big guy" (Andrej Acimovic) is injured and the PG (Aleksa Ristic) is redshirting, if I heard correctly.

I think you have those opposite 

[AZ Hoosier]

13 minutes ago, Hoosierfanyuh said:

I think you have those opposite 

Could be. I just remember hearing one was hurt and one was RS.

[HoosierHoopster]

21 minutes ago, AZ Hoosier said:

Could be. I just remember hearing one was hurt and one was RS.

Yeah it’s opposite- there hasn’t been a formal statement Acimovic is redshirting as far as I know but it looks like it

[str8baller]

9 hours ago, AZ Hoosier said:

The "big guy" (Andrej Acimovic) is injured and the PG (Aleksa Ristic) is redshirting, if I heard correctly.

 

9 hours ago, Hoosierfanyuh said:

I think you have those opposite 

I’m interested to see how we go about roster building from here on out. Redshirting, without injury, in modern NIL seems almost like an anachronism. 
 

If Ristic or another injured guy can crack the rotation we could at least say we have 3 guys with PT returning in Miles, Sisley, and 3rd person. If we bring in 5 more seniors in the transfer market we put ourselves in similar situation going into yr 3 though.

[Home Jersey]

21 minutes ago, str8baller said:

 

I’m interested to see how we go about roster building from here on out. Redshirting, without injury, in modern NIL seems almost like an anachronism. 
 

If Ristic or another injured guy can crack the rotation we could at least say we have 3 guys with PT returning in Miles, Sisley, and 3rd person. If we bring in 5 more seniors in the transfer market we put ourselves in similar situation going into yr 3 though.

Dorn too, hopefully. So maybe 4 guys returning if Ristic cracks the rotation. 

[LamarCheeks]

We are shooting 90% as a team from the FT line. 

Made 36 of 40 in our two games. 

Don't necessarily expect to continue at that pace, but wow -- what a difference from years past. 

HATE leaving free points out there ... 

 

[HoosierHoopster]

1 hour ago, LamarCheeks said:

We are shooting 90% as a team from the FT line. 

Made 36 of 40 in our two games. 

Don't necessarily expect to continue at that pace, but wow -- what a difference from years past. 

HATE leaving free points out there ... 

 

When you build a team around shooting, free throw shooting will be there

[HoosierHoopster]

Crazy early 'bracketology' - IU a #9 seed

https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/page/bracketology/ncaa-bracketology-2026-march-madness-men-field-predictions

Other B1G teams early projections

PU #1 (Noooo Waaayyy)

UM #2

Ill #3

MSU #5

UCLA #5

OSU #7

Ore #8

Wisc #6

USC #9

Iowa #10

On the current rankings:

 

Watch list

Indiana coach Darian DeVries has a history of producing quick turnarounds at previous stops and is hoping to pull another one off in his first season in Bloomington. The Hoosiers looked good in the first week of the season, blowing out Alabama A&M and Marquette to inch closer to being ranked. Indiana next has two games that won't exactly move the needle -- against Milwaukee and Incarnate Word -- but could find itself ranked if the early-season jumbling continues.

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/46918594/no-1-houston-leapfrogs-purdue-ap-top-25-poll

 

[IvanRenkosillegitimatechild]

12 hours ago, str8baller said:

 

I’m interested to see how we go about roster building from here on out. Redshirting, without injury, in modern NIL seems almost like an anachronism. 
 

If Ristic or another injured guy can crack the rotation we could at least say we have 3 guys with PT returning in Miles, Sisley, and 3rd person. If we bring in 5 more seniors in the transfer market we put ourselves in similar situation going into yr 3 though.

Doesn’t Bailey have two years of eligibility remaining? And Harris has like 3 years? Both of those are probably getting rotation minutes realistically assuming Harris comes back from injury.

[Home Jersey]

Just now, IvanRenkosillegitimatechild said:

Doesn’t Bailey have two years of eligibility remaining? And Harris has like 3 years? Both of those are probably getting rotation minutes realistically assuming Harris comes back from injury.

Reed is a senior. Harris is a sophomore.

Harris will be injured until December IIRC and when he is back, he will be the 3rd big guy. Kinda doubt he plays many meaningful minutes this year, but maybe he makes the most of an opportunity. I could see him and Drake being candidates to be "Creaned" potentially. I think Dorn and Ristic are the most likely of the injured guys to play rotation minutes this year. Ristic maybe sparingly but we need a 3rd ball handler and I think Drake could also be out until December. Tough to carve out a role under those circumstances.

We have 6 seniors. 2 HS commits. So minimum of 4 portal players if nobody transfers out. Need a starting C and a starting PG. 

[J34]

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