(2027) - Darius Wabbington

[Demo]

43 minutes ago, Hoosierfanyuh said:

Yes. Expect Branham to be there too. We worked really hard to get the first visit apparently. Az wants him to be a 5 and bang down low. IU is recruiting the opposite of that. Apparently there’s a big gap between the first 3 visits to the last three because he’s going to eval the first 3 hard first. 
 

Az is the perceived favorite right now, some question if he wasn’t from there if he’d even consider them. 
 

this is all paraphrasing from peegs. 

The official schedule 

[WayneFleekHoosier]

45 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

There's going to be some very highly sought after big that wants to play with Chase Branham. Point guards and bigs tend to like to see the potential of that pairing. Also this:

Would be an elite pairing. Hoping to make that happen

[jermhoosierfan]

1 hour ago, Hoosierfanyuh said:

Yes. Expect Branham to be there too. We worked really hard to get the first visit apparently. Az wants him to be a 5 and bang down low. IU is recruiting the opposite of that. Apparently there’s a big gap between the first 3 visits to the last three because he’s going to eval the first 3 hard first. 
 

Az is the perceived favorite right now, some question if he wasn’t from there if he’d even consider them. 
 

this is all paraphrasing from peegs. 

If Sherrell can be inside out like they want to do with Wabbington, he can actually see that it can work in Bloomington.

[Demo]

1 hour ago, Stuhoo said:

There's going to be some very highly sought after big that wants to play with Chase Branham. Point guards and bigs tend to like to see the potential of that pairing. Also this:

Yup, and any cut ups they show him of the offense or of Branham or Moody or Karvala are gonna be those guys cutting to the rim or making catch and shoot jumpers and just generally playing off ball because the best trait Wabbington has, by far, is his vision and facilitation, particularly from the high post. Obviously he’s not Jokic, but the way you construct offense with him is exactly the same. That’s what makes a UNC visit annoying because Malone can just show Nuggets cut ups and it would be an incredibly easy sell. 

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

On 8/18/2026 at 10:29 AM, Demo said:

The official schedule 

 

He arrived in Bloomington last night.

[Demo]

4 minutes ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

 

He arrived in Bloomington last night.

The kid from Arizona will probably be the only one not sweltering at the game tomorrow.

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

But remember, it's a "dry" heat in Arizona!

[Stuhoo]

51 minutes ago, Demo said:

The kid from Arizona will probably be the only one not sweltering at the game tomorrow.

Checking in from South Florida; current dewpoint 79.

If I were at the game tommorrow:

[WayneFleekHoosier]

Appears to be our best and most realistic top target to go with Branham.  Hoping we can win this recruitment.  

[mike vannice]

Any word on how the visit went?

[Demo]

Have seen worse but I don’t the 2 sport thing is on the table. 

[J34]

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

1 less competitor.  Reports are that Wabbington has told Louisville he's no longer considering them.  He was scheduled to visit L'ville this coming weekend.  Arizona still the perceived school to beat.

[Demo]

Can’t access the full interview, but if you’re just gonna go off a couple of sentences those are pretty good ones. 

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

I was able to access the full interviews and he was clearly impressed with his visit and the plan our staff has for him at IU.  He also mentioned how it's been the entire staff he's had contact with during his recruitment and not just his primary recruiter and the head coach.  Eric Bossi put out a short blurb indicating he thinks Wabbington won't take any more visits after his Arizona visit at the end of this month that it's an Indiana/Arizona battle.  Unfortunately, Arizona has the home field advantage in this recruitment.

[Demo]

2 hours ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

I was able to access the full interviews and he was clearly impressed with his visit and the plan our staff has for him at IU.  He also mentioned how it's been the entire staff he's had contact with during his recruitment and not just his primary recruiter and the head coach.  Eric Bossi put out a short blurb indicating he thinks Wabbington won't take any more visits after his Arizona visit at the end of this month that it's an Indiana/Arizona battle.  Unfortunately, Arizona has the home field advantage in this recruitment.

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That’s always been the rub, getting an Arizona kid to leave Arizona, though it has happened. Would be a pretty hellacious get for the staff if they could make it happen, or a pretty hellacious overpay, depending on how you look at it. It’s a pretty smoking year in Az HS ball with Wabbington and Adan Diggs, 2 top 10 type kids. 

[Demo]

Probably not notable but since tea leaf reading is always fun: The staff was in today to see Wabbington 4 days after his visit while Arizona was at Blair Academy to see top 50 C Kamsi Awaka, whose brother played at Zona the last 2 years. Curiously, their Arizona official visits are currently scheduled for the same weekend.

[mike vannice]

14 hours ago, Demo said:

Probably not notable but since tea leaf reading is always fun: The staff was in today to see Wabbington 4 days after his visit while Arizona was at Blair Academy to see top 50 C Kamsi Awaka, whose brother played at Zona the last 2 years. Curiously, their Arizona official visits are currently scheduled for the same weekend.

SportsNews

 

Additional tea leaf reading: Maybe Arizona has figured out that Darius does not want to be a traditional center and are selling him on Awaka at the 5 and Darius is the point forward. Lets hope not.