BLOOMINGTON, Ind. \u2014 Indiana men’s basketball is among the final nine options for 2026 four-star power forward Latrell Allmond.<\/p>\n
The 6-foot-8, 225-pound Allmond released<\/a> his top nine schools Friday, and the Hoosiers made his shortlist. Allmond is also considering a pair of Big Ten foes in Michigan State and Maryland, in addition to Tennessee, Virginia, Arizona, Kansas, Miami and Oklahoma State.<\/p>\n Allmond, who received an offer from Indiana on May 8 and visited Bloomington on June 17, is ranked in the top 40 nationally by several outlets. According to Rivals recruiting insider Joe Tipton<\/a>, Allmond will visit Kansas on Aug. 28 and he’s taken unofficial visits to Oklahoma State, Tennessee and Virginia.<\/p>\n The Richmond, Va., native intends to announce his college decision on his birthday, Oct. 13.<\/p>\n Allmond told Tipton he has a strong relationship with Indiana assistant Kenny Johnson, who previously tried recruiting Allmond to Georgetown, and learned more about Indiana head coach Darian DeVries on his visit.<\/p>\n “Coach DeVries, I got to know him a lot more and how his offense is run,” Allmond said. “We were able to see the new Indiana culture they\u2019re trying to establish over there. When I was there, I got to see history there, how many championships they\u2019ve won. It\u2019s definitely a winning culture.<\/p>\n “The school seemed like a whole big family. My relationship with the staff has grown tremendously. I got to see a lot of the staff on my visit, see the new guys and how they get into the lab with their players.”<\/p>\n On the 2024-25 Adidas 3SSB circuit, Allmond averaged<\/a> 14.7 points, 7.4 rebounds, 1.2 assists and 1.6 blocks per game.<\/p>\n Indiana’s 2026 recruiting class, the first full group under DeVries, currently holds just one commitment: Prince-Alexander Moody, a four-star combo guard from Forestville, Maryland.<\/p>\n Nevertheless, the Hoosiers have enjoyed a successful week on the recruiting trail, landing in the top 12<\/a> for the nation’s top point guard, Taylen Kinney, and the final seven for five-star wing Anthony Thompson.<\/p>\n RISTIC RECAP FROM EUROBASKET:\u00a0Indiana men’s basketball freshman guard Aleksa Ristic averaged 11.3 points and 6.3 assists in seven games for the Serbian National Team.\u00a0CLICK HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n CATCHING UP WITH ‘JBJ’:\u00a0Former Indiana men’s basketball standout James Blackmon Jr. lost two seasons due to a knee injury, but he found himself along the way.\u00a0CLICK HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n FERRELL BACK HOME WITH ASSEMBLY BALL:\u00a0Entering his 10th professional season, former Indiana basketball star Yogi Ferrell remains driven by his father, Kevin Duane Ferrell Sr., who passed in 2024.\u00a0CLICK HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BLOOMINGTON, Ind. \u2014 Indiana men’s basketball is among the final nine options for 2026 four-star power forward Latrell…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-24152","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\/24152","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=24152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}