{"id":918721,"date":"2026-10-06T23:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T23:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/918721\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T23:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T23:18:09","slug":"iu-basketball-lands-commitment-from-5-star-center-darius-wabbington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/918721\/","title":{"rendered":"IU basketball lands commitment from 5-star center Darius Wabbington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (WISH) \u2014 Five-star center Darius Wabbington announced his commitment to IU on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wabbington is ranked 9th by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-sports\/basketball\/recruiting\/player\/_\/id\/259949\/darius-wabbington\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">ESPN<\/a> in the Class of 2027. He is the first five-star recruit during Darian DeVries\u2019 tenure with the Hoosiers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wabbington plays at Sunnyslope High School in Phoenix, Arizona.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He joins shooting guard Chase Branham and center Felix Kiehlneker as IU\u2019s additions in the class of 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">IU will play its first exhibition game of the 2026-27 season on Sunday on the road against Butler. The game is scheduled to tip off at 6:30 p.m. and will air on WISH-TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (WISH) \u2014 Five-star center Darius Wabbington announced his commitment to IU on Tuesday. Wabbington is ranked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":918722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-918721","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\/918721","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=918721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/918722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}