Indiana failed to have any players drafted in this past 2025 NBA Draft, after back-to-back years with first round draft picks and three overall selections in the NBA Draft.
Enter this season under new head coach Darian DeVries the Hoosiers men's basketball program has high hopes and will be led by numerous transfers.
The Athletic’s Sam Vecenie is projecting transfer and Indiana basketball forward Tucker DeVries will be drafted in the NBA next summer.
Vecenie has DeVries as the No. 54 player on his 2026 NBA Draft board.
"“I think he can do a lot and get moved around to really take advantage of mismatches and really score from all three levels. I think people would be surprised by that and the physicality the he likes to play with. He’s not just a standstill shooter. He really — if you watch it, he’s really good shooting off the move which I think people under value.”"
“He shoots the living crap out of the ball and it’s effortless. Like he doesn’t really have specific range. I mean like he’s just effortless,” Basye toldTheHoosier.com of DeVries’ shooting ability. “He’s big — like he’s strong. I don’t think people realize that he can really score and he’s comfortable with using his body to create space and he’s comfortable in the mid-post and comfortable creating one on one. Like he’s a lot more than just a shooter.
The 6-foot-7 DeVries suffered a shoulder injury in December and had surgery in February. He received a medical hardship waiver from the NCAA to play in 2025-26, his fifth season of college basketball.
Last season he averaged 14.9 points, 4.9 rebounds, 2.8 assists, and 1.8 steals per game at WVU in just eight games.
As a junior at Drake, DeVries averaged 21.6 points, 6.7 rebounds and 3.7 assists winning back to back Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year Awards under his father Darian DeVries.
Good workout with incoming Hoosier Tucker DeVries … pic.twitter.com/8SqUFGqnXT
— Jordan Basye (@CoachBasye22) May 27, 2025
Vecenie’s 2026 top-60 also includes notable names like: top five locks BYU's AJ Dybantsa, Duke's Cameron Boozer, and Kansas guard Darryn Peterson and Texas A&M’s Mackenzie Mgbako (No. 57), and Purdue’s Braden Smith and Trey Kaufman-Renn (No.’s 28 and 60, respectively).