Both the Indiana men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball programs will begin their seasons with Hoosier Hoops on Kirkwood \u2014 a new interactive fan event \u2014 from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Oct. 2. The event will take place on the 300, 400 and 500 blocks of Kirkwood Avenue.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Players from each squad will be introduced, compete in skills competitions and partake in meet-and-greets with fans. \u00a0<\/p>\n
The women\u2019s program finished 20-13 in 2024-25, reaching the NCAA Tournament Round of 32 before falling to the University of South Carolina<\/a>. The Hoosiers lost six players to the transfer portal and three to graduation, meaning senior guard Shay Ciezki is the lone returning contributor.\u00a0<\/p>\n Indiana head coach Teri Moren brought in eight new players for the upcoming season \u2014 two freshmen and six transfers.\u00a0<\/p>\n Indiana men\u2019s basketball is beginning a new era under first-year head coach Darian DeVries, who was hired March 18<\/a> from West Virginia University. DeVries compiled a 10-man portal class, which is ranked the 10th-best in the country, according to 247Sports<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Fifth-year senior forward Tucker DeVries and fifth-year senior guard Lamar Wilkerson headline the new-look Hoosiers. The former scored 17.7 points per game across 112 career contests, while the latter averaged 20.5 per game last season at Sam Houston State University.\u00a0<\/p>\n The men will open their regular season against Alabama A&M University on Nov. 5 while the women will begin theirs against Lipscomb University on Nov. 4.\u00a0<\/p>\n Dalton James covers Indiana basketball and football for the Indiana Daily Student. You can follow him at @DaltonMJames<\/a> on X and contact him via email at jamesdm@iu.edu<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Both the Indiana men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball programs will begin their seasons with Hoosier Hoops on Kirkwood \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-133620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}