Let’s talk Roster! 2026/2027

[go iu bb]

2 minutes ago, BA47591 said:

I wonder if the 5 year rule will effect the criteria for medical red shirt or redshirtting period as far as that goes.

I think the idea is that they have 5 years, period. They could play every single game or 0 games during those 5 years, but once the 5 years is up they no longer have eligibility. 

[BA47591]

On 4/28/2026 at 1:24 PM, CSP said:

This kid wouldn't play a single meaningful minute this year. 

I think in 2 years, on the same timeliness as our current freshmen he would be worth it if we can get him. Hot motor, 7'7" wingspan and physically just starting to look like he's adding muscle. He can knock down an open shot. 35+ vertical. There's a lot to work with. But know he's not ready to play in the Big Ten. All of our freshman are pretty fragile physically. In 2 years if he's a 6'10 230lb rim protecting lob threat????

 

[WayneFleekHoosier]

Evan Miya on the Hysterics and his take on the roster.  Pretty good summary.  His metrics don’t love Burton. Roster offensively limited.  Lack of returning minutes.

 

 Didn’t get into the freshman at all.  
I personally think and have stated that’s where our roster building is flawed. We’ve got 2 that I have zero expectations for.   And right now those guys are 9 and 10 on the roster.  I feel those guys should be our 12-13.   This in a nutshell sums up my roster concerns.  
 

I think the top end is strong in 3 of the 5 spots with some decent hope in the other starting spots.  
 

What’s not calculated into this, guy 9-13 might outplay and win job from 1-8.  But if spots 11-13 are literal placeholders, no real inside completion is ever happening.   Flawed model. 

[Hoosierfanyuh]

43 minutes ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

Evan Miya on the Hysterics and his take on the roster.  Pretty good summary.  His metrics don’t love Burton. Roster offensively limited.  Lack of returning minutes.

 

 Didn’t get into the freshman at all.  
I personally think and have stated that’s where our roster building is flawed. We’ve got 2 that I have zero expectations for.   And right now those guys are 9 and 10 on the roster.  I feel those guys should be our 12-13.   This in a nutshell sums up my roster concerns.  
 

I think the top end is strong in 3 of the 5 spots with some decent hope in the other starting spots.  
 

What’s not calculated into this, guy 9-13 might outplay and win job from 1-8.  But if spots 11-13 are literal placeholders, no real inside completion is ever happening.   Flawed model. 

While I mostly agree, the part that brings me a lot of optimism is that we won 18 games with a pretty terrible roster last year, upgrades across the board at each position besides Lamar. Make the tournament and win a game or two. 

[Jeff Flabjohns]

https://barttorvik.com/trankpre.php
 

Torviks first rankings are out, IU is at #25. Purdue 30, Iowa 42. 

St John’s all the way at 52 right now, Syracuse one spot above them.

[Stuhoo]

34 minutes ago, Jeff Flabjohns said:

https://barttorvik.com/trankpre.php
 

Torviks first rankings are out, IU is at #25. Purdue 30, Iowa 42. 

St John’s all the way at 52 right now, Syracuse one spot above them.

I’ve been wrong about Purdue before and CJ Cox is a really good basketball player, but what they will basically be doing next season is taking their second team from last season and promoting it to starter status.

[WayneFleekHoosier]

13 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

I’ve been wrong about Purdue before and CJ Cox is a really good basketball player, but what they will basically be doing next season is taking their second team from last season and promoting it to starter status.

This is why I love college basketball.  I hope they finally fall off and this should be the season for it.  But I like Mayer, Benter, Cox.  Jacobsen has big potential. Ertel just seems like one of those guys.  West who didn’t play this year was quoted as being their leading scorer in scrimmages.  Guys like Burgess that have been waiting their time. And a really competitive, smart coach.  I don’t expect a Marquette like season for them this year but I hope for it.  

[ronzo4IU]

19 hours ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

Evan Miya on the Hysterics and his take on the roster.  Pretty good summary.  His metrics don’t love Burton. Roster offensively limited.  Lack of returning minutes.

 

 Didn’t get into the freshman at all.  
I personally think and have stated that’s where our roster building is flawed. We’ve got 2 that I have zero expectations for.   And right now those guys are 9 and 10 on the roster.  I feel those guys should be our 12-13.   This in a nutshell sums up my roster concerns.  
 

I think the top end is strong in 3 of the 5 spots with some decent hope in the other starting spots.  
 

What’s not calculated into this, guy 9-13 might outplay and win job from 1-8.  But if spots 11-13 are literal placeholders, no real inside completion is ever happening.   Flawed model. 

This is why I sure hope that we are adding some quality depth in those last three spots because if we aren’t, then our team is going to be dog tired at the end of the games like last season and I would bet that we finish middle of the pack or worse.  

[WayneFleekHoosier]

2 hours ago, ronzo4IU said:

This is why I sure hope that we are adding some quality depth in those last three spots because if we aren’t, then our team is going to be dog tired at the end of the games like last season and I would bet that we finish middle of the pack or worse.  

I can see a wide range of things.  We are very thin and counting heavily on the freshmen to fill spots. Which Most schools don’t do these days unless they are 5 star freshman.  We’ve got 5 “proven” players and 2 others with upside.  Then 3 freshman where 2 of them don’t look physically ready.  But the staff should know this, so we’ll see.  

[HoosierHoopster]

Ok so portal & recruit class so far 10 players, #3 rank portal class

Guards

PG Burton - 5’11, portal rank 24, 2 yrs elig

CG Lindsay - portal rank 190, 6’3, 2 yrs elig

CG Moody 6’4 4 star frosh

Wings

Mustaf - Guard/wing #88 portal rank, 6’5 2 yrs elig

Harris G/wing 2 yrs elig #199 portal rank per 247 sports (4 star as HS recruit)

Karvala - 6’7 4-star frosh 

Manhertz - 4 star frosh 

Forwards-Crnter

Sherrell -#12 portal, 6’11 Forward-center 2 yrs

Yigi - #37 portal, 7’2 center 2 yrs elig

Sisley - 6’8 forward soph 

staff still portal searching at least for another forward. IMO need another PG.

Bossi was really high on Harris as a 4 star HS recruit, for his shooting and inside game, he may be flying under the radar a bit here as buried on Duke’s deep bench. 

Should have pretty good outside shooting at this point, Lindsay 37% on 6 apg, Harris only at 30% but that’s on 1 apg in limited time at a Duke he’s a better shooter than that, Mustaff 37%, Burton 33%.

would expect a nice frosh to soph jump from Sisley. Showed good promise in a number of games but hit the freshman wall. 

We are already bigger, more athletic and more skilled across the floor than last year except for Wilkerson (wish we had him this season). 

Need at least 2 if not the 3 adds for depth. Interested to see who it ends up being

[BA47591]

We could step on the court and not get embarrassed. Plenty of players to play single big one out. 

[ronzo4IU]

1 hour ago, HoosierHoopster said:

Ok so portal & recruit class so far 10 players, #3 rank portal class

Guards

PG Burton - 5’11, portal rank 24, 2 yrs elig

CG Lindsay - portal rank 190, 6’3, 2 yrs elig

CG Moody 6’4 4 star frosh

Wings

Mustaf - Guard/wing #88 portal rank, 6’5 2 yrs elig

Harris G/wing 2 yrs elig #199 portal rank per 247 sports (4 star as HS recruit)

Karvala - 6’7 4-star frosh 

Manhertz - 4 star frosh 

Forwards-Crnter

Sherrell -#12 portal, 6’11 Forward-center 2 yrs

Yigi - #37 portal, 7’2 center 2 yrs elig

Sisley - 6’8 forward soph 

staff still portal searching at least for another forward. IMO need another PG.

Bossi was really high on Harris as a 4 star HS recruit, for his shooting and inside game, he may be flying under the radar a bit here as buried on Duke’s deep bench. 

Should have pretty good outside shooting at this point, Lindsay 37% on 6 apg, Harris only at 30% but that’s on 1 apg in limited time at a Duke he’s a better shooter than that, Mustaff 37%, Burton 33%.

would expect a nice frosh to soph jump from Sisley. Showed good promise in a number of games but hit the freshman wall. 

We are already bigger, more athletic and more skilled across the floor than last year except for Wilkerson (wish we had him this season). 

Need at least 2 if not the 3 adds for depth. Interested to see who it ends up being

These are all good points and things to hope for but if we’re going to be spending $20 million on a roster, we might as well go all the way so that we can make a deep run in the tournament and contend in the upper tier of the big. I know we’re not done yet and so this is just speculation but with what’s left, it’s not looking so great unless they pull a magic rabbit out of a hat, but one can only hope.

[HoosierHoopster]

11 minutes ago, ronzo4IU said:

These are all good points and things to hope for but if we’re going to be spending $20 million on a roster, we might as well go all the way so that we can make a deep run in the tournament and contend in the upper tier of the big. I know we’re not done yet and so this is just speculation but with what’s left, it’s not looking so great unless they pull a magic rabbit out of a hat, but one can only hope.

Realistically don’t think we’re adding more than depth at this point. It’s a roster that should be able to contend in the top half of the B1G and make the tourney, we just missed the tourney this season with a decidedly weaker roster, my only real concern is depth to deal with injuries, fatigue, and secondary ball handling. We did get the number 3 ranked overall portal roster so can’t really fault how they spent portal money. 
 

imo this is the real build year where we do pretty well in conf and make the tourney, second round maybe one more, important point is this roster remains eligible so we can then add pieces next season after decent success and we continue to get better

[BA47591]

1 hour ago, HoosierHoopster said:

Realistically don’t think we’re adding more than depth at this point. It’s a roster that should be able to contend in the top half of the B1G and make the tourney, we just missed the tourney this season with a decidedly weaker roster, my only real concern is depth to deal with injuries, fatigue, and secondary ball handling. We did get the number 3 ranked overall portal roster so can’t really fault how they spent portal money. 
 

imo this is the real build year where we do pretty well in conf and make the tourney, second round maybe one more, important point is this roster remains eligible so we can then add pieces next season after decent success and we continue to get better

I think if we had last years team with Sherrell, Yigitoglu and Burton minus Bailey, Acamovic and Conerway, we'd be pretty jacked about it. The only difference maker that somewhat fits in the portal is Momcilovic. My concern is that we flipped our previous weaknesses and strengths. I guess the difference is, this year we have guys that have shot well in the past but are unproven and you cant teach size. Did we push it too far one way? Remains to be seen. 

Odds are we're looking for emergency players, but it would be cool if we got Momcilovic.  

[str8baller]

3 hours ago, HoosierHoopster said:

Mustaff 37%,

I haven’t pulled up much video but he’s supposedly a slasher who is pretty mediocre efficiency wise inside the arc (lots of long 2’s?) but shoots the 3 ball well but on less than 2 attempts per game.  
 

We’ll see what this new staff is made of with his and Harris’s scouts. Two gambles whom we apparently loved. Sherrel and Burton aren’t without their warts either but I think you probably get enough of both that even their potential downside is worth it. 
 

If Carrs scout is right on those 4 and CDD can coach em up, there’s a lot of potential there.

[Stuhoo]

47 minutes ago, str8baller said:

I haven’t pulled up much video but he’s supposedly a slasher who is pretty mediocre efficiency wise inside the arc (lots of long 2’s?) but shoots the 3 ball well but on less than 2 attempts per game.  
 

We’ll see what this new staff is made of with his and Harris’s scouts. Two gambles whom we apparently loved. Sherrel and Burton aren’t without their warts either but I think you probably get enough of both that even their potential downside is worth it. 
 

If Carrs scout is right on those 4 and CDD can coach em up, there’s a lot of potential there.

Lindsay is pretty much a known quantity too. Sisley, Harris and Mustaf are the keys to the season surpassing expectations.

[ronzo4IU]

55 minutes ago, str8baller said:

I haven’t pulled up much video but he’s supposedly a slasher who is pretty mediocre efficiency wise inside the arc (lots of long 2’s?) but shoots the 3 ball well but on less than 2 attempts per game.  
 

We’ll see what this new staff is made of with his and Harris’s scouts. Two gambles whom we apparently loved. Sherrel and Burton aren’t without their warts either but I think you probably get enough of both that even their potential downside is worth it. 
 

If Carrs scout is right on those 4 and CDD can coach em up, there’s a lot of potential there.

My fear is that they are putting a feather in their cap for this portal haul and pretty much calling it good.

Close to  Non playable depth pieces will be the death of next season. Imo

Dusty..Michigan figured it out pretty quickly and there is no reason we can’t do the same.

It would be nice to go into one season with confidence instead of a bunch of ??? 
I would really like to see the staff pull in someone like Devin Williams at this late date and I would think we are starting to give ourselves a competitive edge.

 

 

 

Edited May 2 by ronzo4IU

[str8baller]

57 minutes ago, BA47591 said:

My concern is that we flipped our previous weaknesses and strengths.

This roster is so different from last year or anything Devries has had before it is either a generational overcorrection, or Carr has a little more runway than it appears from the outside and this is what he prefers.  
 

I kind of like it as a high floor/low ceiling roster that can be built on next year

[str8baller]

13 minutes ago, ronzo4IU said:

My fear is that they are putting a feather in their cap for this portal haul and pretty much calling it good.

Close to  Non playable depth pieces will be the death of next season. Imo

Dusty..Michigan figured it out pretty quickly and there is no reason we can’t do the same.

It would be nice to go into one season with confidence instead of a bunch of ??? 
I would really like to see the staff pull in someone like Devin Williams at this late date and I would think we are starting to give ourselves a competitive edge.

 

 

 

As others have theorized, it’s likely a money thing. It’d be nice if we had an ace left up our sleeve, though. 

19 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

Lindsay is pretty much a known quantity too. Sisley, Harris and Mustaf are the keys to the season surpassing expectations.

I think the Burton/Sherrell combo has enough potential synergy to be season defining on its own. But yea…odds are your assessment is correct. 

[Stuhoo]

16 minutes ago, str8baller said:

As others have theorized, it’s likely a money thing. It’d be nice if we had an ace left up our sleeve, though. 

I think the Burton/Sherrell combo has enough potential synergy to be season defining on its own. But yea…odds are your assessment is correct. 

Harris has me curious as hell.

Such a great shooting stroke and was young and buried behind bigger names at Duke. He is a season changer if he becomes Lamar Wilkerson-lite.