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IU basketball will be short-handed when it opens exhibition play on Friday night against Marian University at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall.<\/p>\n
In a Thursday afternoon meeting with the media<\/a>, first-year coach Darian DeVries provided updates on Nick Dorn, Aleksa Ristic and Jason Drake, who are all currently out with injuries.<\/p>\n DeVries did not address Josh Harris\u2019s status, but the North Florida transfer is not expected to be available on Friday.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s the latest on Dorn, Drake, Ristic and IU\u2019s depth early in the season:<\/p>\n On Dorn:<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s starting to work his way back into some action. We don\u2019t anticipate him playing any tomorrow night. The Baylor game, I would probably say is doubtful as well. We\u2019ll see where that leads.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re certainly getting closer to getting him to full practice-type of stuff. We still got a little bit of time to go there yet.\u201d<\/p>\n On Drake and Ristic:<\/p>\n \u201cUnfortunately, both of those guys are probably going to be out for a little while yet. Certainly not going to have them for the start of the season and probably a few weeks into it for sure, which does it make it challenging.<\/p>\n \u201cThose are two guys that we are counting on to hopefully give us some minutes and some depth. We gotta be a little bit creative until one or two of those guys come back and give us a little more flexibility with our lineups.\u201d<\/p>\n On the rotation and what it might look like in terms of the number of guys who will play:<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s going to be challenging early just with Nick making his way back. How quickly he can kind of get back into that game conditioning and also for us to just get a little feel for where to best utilize him and plug him in.<\/p>\n \u201cThe other two guys, they\u2019re going to be a while. So, how quickly can they just get thrown in there and find their roles and be able to fit?<\/p>\n \u201cSo those are things that we don\u2019t know yet. Because of injuries, we\u2019re going to be a little limited on our depth right now. I anticipate it being seven to eight guys here early and then as those guys start to come back, get more into that 8, 9 or maybe even 10 on certain nights from a depth standpoint.\u201d<\/p>\n (Photo credit: IU Athletics)<\/p>\n See More: Media<\/a>, Aleksa Ristic<\/a>, Jason Drake<\/a>, Nick Dorn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IU basketball will be short-handed when it opens exhibition play on Friday night against Marian University at Simon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[119986,402,94783,398,400,401,94784,99],"class_list":["post-229579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-aleksa-ristic","tag-basketball","tag-jason-drake","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaabasketball","tag-nick-dorn","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}