[6BS] Roster Movement Continues For Men's And Women's Basketball
Women's Star Garzon In Portal As Both Teams Also Add Personnel
Welcome to another edition of 6-Banner Sunday, a joint production between The Assembly Call and Inside the Hall, and presented by our friends at Homefield Apparel, where we highlight the five most essential IU basketball stories of the past week, plus take a look at how the other IU sports programs are doing.
With the entire team from last year in the transfer portal, new IU coach Darian Devries continues to remake his personnel for next season. Despite the women’s squad not changing their staff, they will have to make over their roster as well after their top player announced she is moving on.
Besides this, we will provide some information on Devries’s contract and where things stand in the NCAA Tournament. As usual, we will conclude with weekly shows and a look at other Indiana sports, led by softball pulling a massive upset on the road.
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Here is what is in this week’s edition:
Roster Updates For Hoosiers As Enright Commits
Roster Updates For Women’s Team As Garzon Enters Portal
Darien Devries’ Contract Information
Where Other Teams Stand In The 2025 NCAA Tournament
Weekly Shows
Hoosier Roundup-Softball Upsets Ohio State
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Banner #1: Roster Updates For Hoosiers As Enright Commits
With the entire team from last year now in the transfer portal, IU Coach Darian Devries needs a whole new roster. It was made official that Devries’ son Tucker will follow his dad to campus and incoming freshman Trent Sisley is sticking with the Hoosiers. Also, Luke Goode is petitioning for a medical redshirt.
Finally, DePaul transfer Conor Enright officially committed to Indiana this week adding a third player in the fold for sure. However, targets Ryan Conwell and Josh Dix committed elsewhere.
No matter what though, Devries will have all new players just as he did when taking over at West Virginia last year and still has many roster spots to fill even after the current additions. Scouring the portal is a must now given the lack of personnel in Bloomington still and Devries is almost certainly hard at work doing so.
While the portal will be the primary way to bring players in, a couple of 2025 recruits are being looked at while still out of high school. Also, IU is not the only one with players leaving as the Big Ten has multiple athletes moving around and a trio from last year’s Hoosiers have new homes.
Banner #2: Roster Updates For Women’s Team As Garzon Enters Portal
While the women have had very little movement or transfer portal entries in the last few years, this spring so far has been much different. Moren talked about needing to get bigger and more athletic following the season-ending loss to South Carolina recently.
The biggest bombshell of the offseason though came on Monday when leading scorer Yarden Garzon entered the transfer portal. The Hoosiers did pick up their first commitment from the portal this week though when former Indiana Miss Basketball Chloe Spreen announced she is coming back home after playing her freshman season at Alabama.
It remains to be seen though how or if Indiana fills all of their seven open scholarships. The only uncommitted name known to have the Hoosiers in her final five options is Arkansas transfer Phoenix Stotijn who recently visited campus.
Banner #3: Darien Devries’ Contract Information
The contract for Devries was officially made public this week and is for six years at roughly 4.5 million per season. He also needs to add assistants to his staff and the first one was officially brought on board with Nick Norton following him from West Virginia. A couple of others have been reported as well but are yet to be confirmed by IU.
Fan’s first chance to interact with Devries will be in a couple of months. This is when he will appear at the annual Huber’s Event in Southern Indiana that helps raise money for NIL. It will take place on May 28.
Banner #4: Where Other Teams Stand In The 2025 NCAA Tournament
The finale tomorrow night is set after two thrillers in the Final Four. It will feature a coach Hoosier fans are very familiar with as Kelvin Sampson’s Houston squad takes on Florida. The Gators knocked off Auburn while the Cougars took advantage of a late Duke collapse to earn their spot.
For the women, UCLA was the Big Ten’s final hope for a national championship. However, they were dominated by UConn who will face fellow superpower South Carolina today for a title. The Gamecocks overwhelmed Texas to get there.
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Banner #5: Weekly Shows
The Back Home Network was on-air multiple times in the last few days. Crimson Cast, Doing The Work, and Dribble Drive all had shows this week.
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Banner #6: Hoosier Roundup-Softball Upsets Ohio State
Softball upset elite Ohio State on the road.
Baseball blew another late lead in a loss to Louisville. Also, a standout freshman on the team was honored by the Big Ten as well as a couple of veterans nationally.
Women’s Tennis fell to Washington and Oregon as well as Michigan.
Water polo fell to San Jose State.
Men’s golf competed at the Don Benbow Butler Spring Invitational.
Thanks for your continued support for The Assembly Call and Inside the Hall. We’ll be back next weekend with a new roundup.
Now go enjoy yourself a 6-banner Sunday.
Aaron (Ari) Shifron
Assembly Call Contributor
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