(2026) - Vaughn Karvala to INDIANA

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

Enough of this uncertainty, wariness, anxiety, dubitation, incertitude.  We're listed in his final 3 and he's making an announcement on Nov. 1.   So he announces on the 1st for IU.  But wait, upon further review, he didn't have a formal IU offer?   Bull excrement.  I'm starting a thread for him regardless of the tremor, misdoubt, qualm, skepticism as to does he or doesn't he.

https://www.thedailyhoosier.com/class-of-2026-wing-vaughn-karvala-announces-finalists-and-announcement-date/

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On3

https://www.hudl.com/profile/18787117/Vaughn-Karvala

https://www.insidethehall.com/2025/10/23/class-of-2026-four-star-wing-vaughn-karvala-to-announce-college-decision-on-saturday-november-1/

https://www.on3.com/rivals/news/vaughn-karvala-down-to-5-schools-cal-indiana-xavier/

https://247sports.com/college/indiana/article/indiana-basketball-recruiting-national-top-50-class-of-2026-prospect-vaughn-karvala-sets-announcement-for-nov-1-258248409/

https://www.thedailyhoosier.com/class-of-2026-wing-vaughn-karvala-announces-finalists-and-announcement-date/

 

Vaughn Karvala '26 - Team Herro
Date	Gms		Pts		FGM	FGA	3PM	3PA	FTM	FTA	Reb	Ast	TO	Stl	Blk
4/25  L			19		7	17	0	1	5	6	9	0	2	1	0
4/26 W			17		6	10	5	7	0	0	6	0	0	0	2
4/27  W			9		4	10	0	4	1	3	4	0	4	0	1
5/16  W			14		5	15	4	12	0	0	8	2	3	2	2
5/17  W			14		5	8	1	3	3	5	3	0	1	1	1
5/17  W			12		4	11	2	9	2	2	3	3	1	0	1
5/18  L			18		6	10	4	7	2	4	6	0	1	2	2
5/23  W			16		6	14	4	9	0	0	3	1	3	0	2
5/24  L			14		5	14	3	11	1	1	1	0	3	1	1
5/26  W			24		7	14	4	10	6	6	4	1	1	1	1
7/10  L			5		2	11	0	7	1	2	3	1	6	0	1
7/11  L			10		2	7	1	4	5	8	3	0	2	2	0
7/12  L			28		9	20	5	12	5	8	1	1	3	2	1
7/13  W			16		4	10	2	5	6	7	7	2	3	0	3
7/14  L			18		4	14	2	10	8	9	4	2	3	1	4
7/15  W			14		5	10	2	5	2	2	4	0	1	0	1
7/15  L			0		0	7	0	3	0	0	1	1	2	1	2
Count/Avg	18		14.0		39%		33%		74%		4.1	0.8	2.3	0.8	1.6

[Uspshoosier]

Program isn’t where most want it but if they pull a top 50 recruit after missing out on a top 10 target then that tells me IU as a program still has a little juice left in it.   Would be an impressive back up for a first year coach to pull a top 50 recruit from other programs that had been in on him longer.  Long way to go but would be a step in the right direction. 

[Hoosierfanyuh]

His Instagram follows point to us. Again just followed though 

[Stuhoo]

24 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

Program isn’t where most want it but if they pull a top 50 recruit after missing out on a top 10 target then that tells me IU as a program still has a little juice left in it.   Would be an impressive back up for a first year coach to pull a top 50 recruit from other programs that had been in on him longer.  Long way to go but would be a step in the right direction. 

And already have a top 50 recruit for 2027.

[Uspshoosier]

Just now, Stuhoo said:

And already have a top 50 recruit for 2027.

Some in the business think his  ranking will only get better after his senior year 

[dwtaylor1055]

between CAL, Xavier and IU, neither of the other two can compete with NIL funds vs IU.  I would be shocked if he doesn't pick IU

[HoosierDevils]

Trilly Donovan on the discord logged a prediction for IU! 

[ap2345]

Yep, he's going to be a Hoosier

[ziggyiu]

1 hour ago, dwtaylor1055 said:

between CAL, Xavier and IU, neither of the other two can compete with NIL funds vs IU.  I would be shocked if he doesn't pick IU

I'm not suggesting he picks Xavier, but just to pick up on your mention of dollars to give athletes, Big East schools have plenty of money. Even without outside help for NIL, Big East schools have a potentially larger share of revenue to give basketball players because they don't have to split it with football players. 

[Demo]

12 minutes ago, HoosierDevils said:

Trilly Donovan on the discord logged a prediction for IU! 

Putting aside any NIL advantage IU might have, if you’re a 6’7” elite athlete, and Karvala is a Troy Williams-level athlete, and you see that Marian game with that pace of play that’s what you’re looking for. 

[mamasa]

Sorry if I missed it, does he have an announcement date?

[taco corp]

1 minute ago, mamasa said:

Sorry if I missed it, does he have an announcement date?

Nov. 1

[mamasa]

2 minutes ago, taco corp said:

Nov. 1

Thanks!!

[HoosierDevils]

23 minutes ago, ziggyiu said:

I'm not suggesting he picks Xavier, but just to pick up on your mention of dollars to give athletes, Big East schools have plenty of money. Even without outside help for NIL, Big East schools have a potentially larger share of revenue to give basketball players because they don't have to split it with football players. 

But they also have much less revenue to spare on athletes. IU's athletics revenue is around $105 million and Xavier's is around $30 million. Even though disbursements to athletes is capped at 20.5 million, to meet other expenses Xavier likely can't afford to allocate the full cap amount to paying athletes. They probably have 10ish million to do that and fine they may allocate 70% to men's bball instead of the 70% to football, but that's still just 7 million which is not far off from what major basketball programs in the B1G & SEC will be able to allocate to men's basketball, not to mention these schools have much better NIL than Xavier/Big East sans St. John's. 

 

Edit: Clarifying, the $105million for IU excludes student fees, indirect & direct university support through transfers, or donors. it's just the organic revenue generated annually. @Pagoda is correct that when you include all these IU is in the 150-180 range. Source: https://nil-ncaa.com/

[Pagoda]

FWIW IU’s athletic dept revenue was around $150M (that number excludes loans from IU).  That was latest reported number, which was for the fiscal year ended June 2024, so pre-FB improvement.

I think IU is around $4M rev share + $6M NIL = $10M for MBB.  Just the ballpark number thrown around.  So the Big East schools not focused on FB getting $6-8M+ of the rev share to MBB is getting kinda close to what a lot of P4 FB schools like us are doing.  This is driving up player cost quite a bit.

Edit: @HoosierDevils I see your update and what you meant with the $105M number.  Makes sense.

[ziggyiu]

@HoosierDevils and @Hardwood83 - This came up in a couple of college basketball podcasts in the last month or two. I don't know the ins and outs, but essentially Big Ten schools (and the like) will be giving 80-ish percent of revenue share to football and slightly less than 20 percent to basketball (in most cases). However, even though the Big East won't have the same total dollars as the Big Ten, because they can give 80-some percent of their total revenue share to basketball it will equate to more basketball dollars. Essentially, 80-some perent of the small pie is more money than the not quite 20 prrcent of the larger pie.

[HoosierHoopster]

10 minutes ago, ziggyiu said:

@HoosierDevils and @Hardwood83 - This came up in a couple of college basketball podcasts in the last month or two. I don't know the ins and outs, but essentially Big Ten schools (and the like) will be giving 80-ish percent of revenue share to football and slightly less than 20 percent to basketball (in most cases). However, even though the Big East won't have the same total dollars as the Big Ten, because they can give 80-some percent of their total revenue share to basketball it will equate to more basketball dollars. Essentially, 80-some perent of the small pie is more money than the not quite 20 prrcent of the larger pie.

[HoosierDevils]

33 minutes ago, ziggyiu said:

@HoosierDevils and @Hardwood83 - This came up in a couple of college basketball podcasts in the last month or two. I don't know the ins and outs, but essentially Big Ten schools (and the like) will be giving 80-ish percent of revenue share to football and slightly less than 20 percent to basketball (in most cases). However, even though the Big East won't have the same total dollars as the Big Ten, because they can give 80-some percent of their total revenue share to basketball it will equate to more basketball dollars. Essentially, 80-some perent of the small pie is more money than the not quite 20 prrcent of the larger pie.

That is definitely true for schools like UConn versus basically anybody, and perhaps for comparing Villanova to Northwestern but not true for a comparison of Xavier to IU. There's a massive within conference variation as well. Don't get me wrong, I agree that a middle of the pack Big East school (or bball first and no football) is in better position than a middle of the pack power conference (esp. ACC) school but don't think that's the case for mid-tier Big East to top-tier Big 10. Certainly the difference there is small enough that is easily offset by difference in NIL resources...even if the Big 10 school's NIL isn't earth shattering.

[ziggyiu]

51 minutes ago, HoosierDevils said:

That is definitely true for schools like UConn versus basically anybody, and perhaps for comparing Villanova to Northwestern but not true for a comparison of Xavier to IU. There's a massive within conference variation as well. Don't get me wrong, I agree that a middle of the pack Big East school (or bball first and no football) is in better position than a middle of the pack power conference (esp. ACC) school but don't think that's the case for mid-tier Big East to top-tier Big 10. Certainly the difference there is small enough that is easily offset by difference in NIL resources...even if the Big 10 school's NIL isn't earth shattering.

This came from two different sources in two separate interviews: a recent former assistant college coach and I think from Jeff Goodman. 

Maybe they're wrong, and maybe you're right.

Just passing along what I heard. 

[tyappleg]

3 hours ago, HoosierDevils said:

Trilly Donovan on the discord logged a prediction for IU!