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Jeff Borzello
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Jeff Borzello
ESPN Workforce Author
- Basketball recruiting insider.
- Joined ESPN in 2014.
- Graduate of College of Delaware.
Mar 18, 2025, 05:49 PM ET
Indiana has employed West Virginia’s Darian DeVries as new head trainer of the lads’s basketball program, the college introduced Tuesday.
DeVries will obtain a six-year care for the college, resources instructed ESPN.
DeVries joins the Hoosiers after spending only one season with the Mountaineers. He used to be employed remaining March to switch intervening time head trainer Josh Eilert, who had taken over for Bob Huggins following his resignation in June 2023. In his lone season on the helm, DeVries led West Virginia to a 19-13 total document, completing 10-10 within the Large 12 — sooner than the Mountaineers had been snubbed on Variety Sunday.
“That is surely some of the best jobs in The united states,” DeVries stated in a remark. “As any person who grew up within the Midwest loving the sport of basketball, I have all the time admired the IU Basketball program for its championship-level good fortune, custom, and fan strengthen. There is a interest to be successful on the very absolute best ranges each inside the Large Ten and within the NCAA Match, and that is the reason a need that as a trainer I proportion.”
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DeVries signed a five-year deal when he used to be employed at West Virginia, and the full buyout is predicted to price $6.15 million — $4.67 million from his basketball contract along with different bills, in line with the deal, similar to paying the buyout from Drake that WVU paid and different bills incurred in his hiring.
Previous to taking on in Morgantown, DeVries used to be the pinnacle trainer at Drake for 6 seasons, guiding the Bulldogs to 3 NCAA match appearances in his ultimate 4 seasons. He went 150-55 right through his time at Drake, profitable a minimum of 20 video games each and every season. The Bulldogs received the Missouri Valley regular-season championship in 2019 and the convention match name in 2023 and 2024.
Drake received a First 4 recreation within the 2021 NCAA match and misplaced within the first spherical to Miami in 2023 and Washington State remaining yr.
“We went into this training seek with some very explicit issues we had been in search of in our subsequent head trainer, and Darian emerged as any person who, on paper, met and steadily exceeded our standards,” athletic director Scott Dolson added within the faculty’s remark. “After we had an opportunity to speak to him, we knew we had the appropriate particular person. Darian has a plan for construction a championship tradition that may compete on the absolute best point on a year-in, year-out foundation. He has in depth D-1 training revel in that comes with 15 journeys to the NCAA Match as a head trainer or as an assistant.”
DeVries spent 20 seasons on body of workers at Creighton sooner than turning into a head trainer, together with 17 years as an assistant trainer beneath Dana Altman and Greg McDermott.
At Indiana, he replaces Mike Woodson, who introduced in early February he deliberate to step down on the finish of his fourth season in Bloomington. Woodson, a former Indiana megastar, led the Hoosiers to the NCAA match in every of his first two seasons however has handled hypothesis surrounding his long run for many of the previous two seasons. Indiana neglected the NCAA match each years, being named some of the first 4 groups overlooked of this yr’s box.
DeVries will take over a program in determined want of constant good fortune. The Hoosiers, some of the all-time winningest systems in faculty basketball and a program with 5 nationwide championships, have complex previous the primary weekend of the NCAA match simply thrice since achieving the nationwide championship recreation in 2002. They have got additionally neglected six of the previous 8 NCAA tournaments, beneath 3 other coaches.
DeVries’ son, Tucker, has been on the middle of a lot of DeVries’ head training good fortune, incomes the Missouri Valley Participant of the 12 months award in 2023 and 2024 sooner than following him to West Virginia. He performed simply 8 video games for the Mountaineers this season sooner than lacking the remainder of the marketing campaign with an upper-body harm. The college is predicted to use for a scientific redshirt, which might give him yet another yr of eligibility — doubtlessly at Indiana.
One participant who Indiana most probably may not have beneath Darian DeVries: Malik Reneau. The junior ahead, who averaged a team-best 13.3 issues this season — introduced on social media that he is getting into the switch portal.
