While Indiana men\u2019s basketball opened its hour-long practice to reporters Wednesday inside Cook Hall in Bloomington, two Hoosiers weren’t in action on the court.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Junior guards Jason Drake and Nick Dorn were both sidelined due to undisclosed injuries. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe timeline on both of them is a little up in the air, I guess,\u201d Indiana head coach Darian DeVries said in a press conference after practice. \u201cWe’ll see where that leads. We’re obviously hopeful that both of them will be back in a relatively good timeline.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
With the Hoosiers\u2019 upcoming week-long foreign trip to Puerto Rico \u2014 where they\u2019ll play three exhibition games \u2014 slated for Aug. 5-12, DeVries insinuated Dorn wouldn\u2019t play in any of the contests and may not return until the fall.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Dorn transferred to Indiana<\/a> after two seasons at Elon University, where he averaged 15.2 points and 3.8 rebounds in his sophomore campaign. Drake arrived in Bloomington<\/a> following stints at Cleveland State University, Butler Community College, and, most recently, Drexel University.\u00a0<\/p>\n DeVries explained he and his staff would let the\u00a0upcoming days \u201cplay out\u201d before they see where everyone\u2019s availability stands.\u00a0<\/p>\n However,\u00a0DeVries said the Hoosiers should \u201cfor sure\u201d have one of them on campus within the next couple of days. He did not specify which of the two he was referring to.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s our hope,\u201d DeVries said. \u201cThen we’ll get him acclimated as quickly as possible. If that means he gets the opportunity to play in Puerto Rico, great. If we can’t get him close enough there, the last thing we want to do is put him in a position where he’s just not ready.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Indiana is scheduled to play one game against the Puerto Rican All-Star team, followed by two matchups against Mega Superbet \u2014 a professional Serbian club.<\/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>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Indiana men\u2019s basketball opened its hour-long practice to reporters Wednesday inside Cook Hall in Bloomington, two Hoosiers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-33854","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\/33854","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=33854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}