When Darian DeVries took the job at Indiana, he probably didn't think he would have just one scholarship player left on the team after the transfer portal opened. In this new world of college sports with the transfer portal and NIL, players leaving a program isn't uncommon, but basically, an entire team leaving with a new coach coming seems to also be becoming normal.
From the looks of it, the players who played under head coach Mike Woodson this season may not have been happy with their coach leaving, which could have been a reason for their entering the portal. No one will ever know the true reason that players enter the portal, but when a coach leaves or is fired and the entire team ends up leaving, assumptions can certainly be made.
Either way, DeVries is going to have to build his first team with the Hoosiers from the ground up. Here is a list of every player that will not return to Indiana next season:
- Gabe Cupps (transfer portal)
- Malik Reneau (transfer portal)
- Mackenzie Mgbako (transfer porta)
- Kanaan Carlyle (transfer portal)
- Myles Rice (transfer portal)
- Jakai Newton (transfer portal)
- Oumar Ballo (out of eligibility)
- Trey Galloway (out of eligibility)
- Anthony Leal (out of eligibility)
- Langdon Hatton (out of eligibility)
- Luke Goode (out of eligibility, but appealing for a fifth year)
There is only one player on Indiana's 2024-2025 team who actually saw time on the court and is on scholarship who is still with the Hoosiers, and that is Bryson Tucker, who in his freshman season averaged 16.6 minutes per game, 5.4 points per game, 2.9 rebounds and appeared in 23 games this season.
So that leaves 11 open scholarships for DeVries to offer to other transfer portal players, one already being his son Tucker DeVries, who is projected to follow his father to Indiana. DeVries built a majority of his team at West Virginia last year from the transfer portal, and it seems he is going to have to do the same this year at Indiana.