Nope- I wantHere's the On3 top player rankings in the portal by position as of 6:50 am March 27:
C Anton Bonke 7'2" Charlotte - Sr.
PG Jackson Shelstad 6'0" Oregon - Sr.
SG Stefan Vaaks 6'7" Providence - So.
PF Paulius Murauskas 6'8" St. Mary's - Sr.
SF Gavin Doty 6'5" Siena - Jr.
Obviously there will be many, many more names added to the portal but as a hypothetical, would you be satisfied if this was the Indiana starting 5 for the 2026 / 27 season?
Diop
Kwame Evans
Garland
Bonke
Vaaks
Doty
and the kid from Bellmont
Gavin Doty is almost certainly going with Gerry McNamara to Syracuse.
One name that I came across after seeing the score of Nevada versus Auburn in the NIT:
Elijah Price - 6'9" redshirt sophomore at Nevada - his redshirt year came as a freshman at Drake during DeVries' final season there. Price is a 4/5 and a bit of a tweener in the Big Ten BUT he is a really good rebounder (9.3 OR rate and 24.4 defensive rebounding rate...that's elite) with a 7.1 block rate. That's pretty darn good too. He started all season for the Wolf Pack (coached by Steve Alford) and had positive overall impact (BPM) in all but 12 games.
Maybe he's an option, if he portals, as a 3/4th big? April 7 cannot get here quick enough.
Gavin Doty is almost certainly going with Gerry McNamara to Syracuse.
One name that I came across after seeing the score of Nevada versus Auburn in the NIT:
Elijah Price - 6'9" redshirt sophomore at Nevada - his redshirt year came as a freshman at Drake during DeVries' final season there. Price is a 4/5 and a bit of a tweener in the Big Ten BUT he is a really good rebounder (9.3 OR rate and 24.4 defensive rebounding rate...that's elite) with a 7.1 block rate. That's pretty darn good too. He started all season for the Wolf Pack (coached by Steve Alford) and had positive overall impact (BPM) in all but 12 games.
Maybe he's an option, if he portals, as a 3/4th big? April 7 cannot get here quick enough.
FWIW, here is a list from another site of players the IU staff is said to be following:
Darren Harris; Sam Orme; Adam Clark; Brett Decker; Alex Wilkins; Cooper Bowser; Adam Olsen; Sayon Keita; Amari Evans; Bishop Boswell; Haralson; Rodney Rice; Allen Graves; Jake Hall; Desean Goode
I saw some Orme highlights and like him for IU. Can shoot and also take the ball to the basket. Pretty aggressive. Not the quickest guy but a gamer. The type of guy Nebraska, Purdue & Wisconsin beat us with.
Has Evans been discussed on here? Know nothing about him, but his #s are outstanding.
Gavin Doty is almost certainly going with Gerry McNamara to Syracuse.
One name that I came across after seeing the score of Nevada versus Auburn in the NIT:
Elijah Price - 6'9" redshirt sophomore at Nevada - his redshirt year came as a freshman at Drake during DeVries' final season there. Price is a 4/5 and a bit of a tweener in the Big Ten BUT he is a really good rebounder (9.3 OR rate and 24.4 defensive rebounding rate...that's elite) with a 7.1 block rate. That's pretty darn good too. He started all season for the Wolf Pack (coached by Steve Alford) and had positive overall impact (BPM) in all but 12 games.
Maybe he's an option, if he portals, as a 3/4th big? April 7 cannot get here quick enough.
FWIW, here is a list from another site of players the IU staff is said to be following:
Darren Harris; Sam Orme; Adam Clark; Brett Decker; Alex Wilkins; Cooper Bowser; Adam Olsen; Sayon Keita; Amari Evans; Bishop Boswell; Haralson; Rodney Rice; Allen Graves; Jake Hall; Desean Goode
I saw some Orme highlights and like him for IU. Can shoot and also take the ball to the basket. Pretty aggressive. Not the quickest guy but a gamer. The type of guy Nebraska, Purdue & Wisconsin beat us with.
Has Evans been discussed on here? Know nothing about him, but his #s are outstanding.
Oops....I meant Graves, not Evans.
Luke Murray leaving UConn to be head coach at BC. Many have said for a number of years now that Murray is THE reason UConn became what they did. Hurley, and UConn, sure were pretty mediocre until Murray arrived.
Wonder how close Murray is with Mullins?
Those are the names as has been reported on a number of sites so we'll have to see how many end up at Indiana. Was simply posting an On3 list of top players. Would be nice to get surprised with a big name or two. A challenge is to assess how well players from the mid-majors translate to success at the major college level. I don't see Orme as no more than a bench player on a Big 10 team. Got to have 13 players so if the staff adds him so be it. We'll see how it works out next year.Gavin Doty is almost certainly going with Gerry McNamara to Syracuse.
One name that I came across after seeing the score of Nevada versus Auburn in the NIT:
Elijah Price - 6'9" redshirt sophomore at Nevada - his redshirt year came as a freshman at Drake during DeVries' final season there. Price is a 4/5 and a bit of a tweener in the Big Ten BUT he is a really good rebounder (9.3 OR rate and 24.4 defensive rebounding rate...that's elite) with a 7.1 block rate. That's pretty darn good too. He started all season for the Wolf Pack (coached by Steve Alford) and had positive overall impact (BPM) in all but 12 games.
Maybe he's an option, if he portals, as a 3/4th big? April 7 cannot get here quick enough.
FWIW, here is a list from another site of players the IU staff is said to be following:
Darren Harris; Sam Orme; Adam Clark; Brett Decker; Alex Wilkins; Cooper Bowser; Adam Olsen; Sayon Keita; Amari Evans; Bishop Boswell; Haralson; Rodney Rice; Allen Graves; Jake Hall; Desean Goode
I saw some Orme highlights and like him for IU. Can shoot and also take the ball to the basket. Pretty aggressive. Not the quickest guy but a gamer. The type of guy Nebraska, Purdue & Wisconsin beat us with.
Has Evans been discussed on here? Know nothing about him, but his #s are outstanding.
one guy who just entered the portal that i think would be a great get for iu is miles byrd from sdsu.
just a 30% 3pt shooter but made 80% of his ft's in his career and is an *elite* wing defender. i know tj loves bpm and his is through the roof (due mostly to defense). 7.5 bpm last year, 8.6 his sophomore year. would only have one year left.
no idea if iu has any links or if he'd even consider the midwest considering he's from stockton, ca, but he's the type of kid i'd love to have on the wing if iu is going to really lean into having a non defender at the 4. a 6'6 wing defender that can block shots, create steals and is an above average rebounder.
No knock on the Andrean basketball program but those '59ers have been dominant in baseball over the last few decades. Dave Pishkur is a coaching legend.@jackskip23 Pat Knight is a great example of this. He obviously wasn't "good enough" to get a scholarship on those IU teams. And giving him one, took away the opportunity to recruit another player of higher caliber. A player that could have made the difference, and pushed one of those Cheaney teams to a national title. It would have been nice to have another big when Henderson went down in 93, or that same big more capable of slowing Laettner down in 92. Obviously he could have had other kinds of value to RMK, and to the team. But he could have done that as a walkon, or manager.
Knight’s top three “another big” choices during that era all went elsewhere. He swung but missed.
that problem was created when Lawson and Funderburke left. And Lindeman sucked
That didn’t help, but none of those guys were the three guys guys Knight chased and missed on. Would’ve been great had LF stayed but he never should’ve come in the first place. Likewise, Knight “recruited” Shawn Kemp, but that was never going to work, either.
The three (really four) players were Eric Montross, Glen Robinson, Chris Webber and Raef LaFrentz. Knight really wanted all four of them. Even getting one probably gets us a sixth NC.
Robinson wanted to come to IU. But two things changed that :
1. He was a prop 48 and RMK didn't want any part of that back then
2. on one of Glenn's visits he was waiting for RMK in his office and he had one of his feet up on his desk when RMK came in.. the general lit him up for it and told him to come back when he found some manners. Glenn never came back ..: words straight from Glenn's mouth.
The Robinson story is true, though I think Knight was willing to bend on the Prop 48 deal had he felt GR was committed to school (by all accounts, he was). Knight had already had two non-predictors in May and Wilkerson and each had done well, and another he didn’t recruit who was nearly one in Downing. For the right kids, Knight was pretty open minded about that stuff.
he was ..he was an IU fan ... I knew him pretty decent back in HS. I played with Brandon Brantley. They were close friends
yes he's quite awesome. Good at football as well. We were pretty decent at basketball back then not so much anymore. Back then we were 4A now 2A. Much smaller.
Great basketball players come out of mid-major colleges but the reality of a research study indicates loading up a roster with mid-majors is most likely not going to push win totals upward. The study showed over 60% of mid-major players transferring to power schools saw a decline in playing minutes and overall projection. Indiana was an example where other than Wilkerson, the mid-major players (Conerway, Dorr & DeVries) performed at a lower statistical level than they did at their respective prior school. (I consider DeVries a mid-major player as he only played 8 games at West Virginia.)
The point I'm trying to make is I don't get overly excited when I read the statistics of mid major players because of the problem in attempting to project success from making the upward move.
I do expect the current staff at Indiana to do a far better job with assessing mid-major players than last year and building a far more competitive roster for 2026/27 play. These guys make the big bucks and know a heck lot more than I do about all these players.
Come on staff! Let's get to work, build a great team and get the Hoosiers back in the tournament where they belong!
A reminder, the portal opens on April 7. We are getting close to "go time". At most, IU will return three players from this year's roster. The only three I could possibly see are Trent Sisley (definitely staying), Nick Dorn (maybe) and one of the Euros. I'd bet the number ends up at two. With the three incoming freshmen, that means IU would have eight spots remaining. Those eight spots could be filled by eight portal additions or something like 7 portal additions plus another freshman.
Two names to add to the imaginary board:
-Kwame Evans - Oregon - one year left - 6'10" forward - 5.9 BPM, very solid player with a lot of positives. Obviously, Oregon had injury issues that tanked their season and they ended up with basically no competent guards. Evans was either neutral, above average or really good at everything minus three-point shooting (31-102). His rebounding, block rate and ability to get to the foul line stand out the most (154 free throws). I don't see a natural IU connection but rumors are out there that he is a real option for Indiana.
-Amael L'Etang - Dayton - two years left - 7'1" center - 3.6 BPM including 2.0 DBPM. Very solid numbers for the Frenchman including a true shooting percentage of 60.5 and an elite defensive rebounding percentage plus a block percentage of 6.1. He shot 97 threes this season and shot 76.5% from the foul line. L'Etang played his best ball in the last 45 days of the season and had two blocks or more six times in that stretch while scoring in double-figures 12 of 13 games. Another name that has been rumored.
Great basketball players come out of mid-major colleges but the reality of a research study indicates loading up a roster with mid-majors is most likely not going to push win totals upward. The study showed over 60% of mid-major players transferring to power schools saw a decline in playing minutes and overall projection. Indiana was an example where other than Wilkerson, the mid-major players (Conerway, Dorr & DeVries) performed at a lower statistical level than they did at their respective prior school. (I consider DeVries a mid-major player as he only played 8 games at West Virginia.)
The point I'm trying to make is I don't get overly excited when I read the statistics of mid major players because of the problem in attempting to project success from making the upward move.
I do expect the current staff at Indiana to do a far better job with assessing mid-major players than last year and building a far more competitive roster for 2026/27 play. These guys make the big bucks and know a heck lot more than I do about all these players.
Come on staff! Let's get to work, build a great team and get the Hoosiers back in the tournament where they belong!
looking at the final 4 rosters and the guys who contribute...damn near half of them are foreigners
big dudes too. we maybe need to rethink things?
@drjb Illinois' roster skews that a little bit, Arizona has a couple too... but there's no doubt with NIL now, the influx of actual impactful foreign talent is WAY up. NCAA is now a viable path to the NBA, or just in general, for the top younger kids outside the United States.
I don't know who this dude is bc it's a burner, but he seems to either be a LITTLE bit connected or he's grabbing his info from someone/somewhere that is. Anyway, this thread basically says we've locked up a big dog, power conference starter.
https://twitter.com/georgelettice69/status/2037990354985627843?s=20