Sources: Indiana targeting W

• Jeff Borzello Close Jeff Borzello ESPN Staff Author Basketball recruiting expert. Signed up with ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware.Mar 18, 2025, 05:49 PM ET Indiana is targeting West Virginia’s Darian DeVries as its next head coach, sources informed ESPN.An offer is anticipated to come

together in the near future,

sources said.DeVries spent just one season with the Mountaineers, getting employed last March to replace interim head coach Josh Eilert, who had actually taken control of for Bob Huggins following his resignation

in June 2023. In his only season at the helm, DeVries led West Virginia to a 19-13 overall record, completing 10-10 in the Huge 12- before getting snubbed on Selection Sunday.Editor’s Picks 2 Related He signed a five-year deal when he was worked with, and the overall buyout is expected to cost $6.15 million. The buyout for DeVries’remaining WVU agreement is $4.67 million and there’s additional

expenses,

per the agreement, that consist of expenditures such as paying the buyout WVU paid from Drake and other expenses sustained in his hiring.Prior to taking over in Morgantown, DeVries was the head coach at Drake for six seasons, guiding the Bulldogs to 3 NCAA competition appearances in his last 4 seasons. He went 150-55 throughout his time at Drake, winning a minimum of 20 games every season. The Bulldogs won the Missouri Valley regular-season championship in 2019 and the conference competition championship in 2023 and 2024. Drake won a First Four game in the 2021 NCAA competition and lost in the preliminary to Miami in 2023 and Washington State last year.DeVries spent 20 seasons on staff at Creighton before becoming a head coach, including 17 years as an assistant coach under both Dana Altman and Greg McDermott.At Indiana, he replaces Mike Woodson, who revealed in early February he prepared to step down at the end of his fourth season in Bloomington.

Woodson, a previous Indiana star, led the Hoosiers to the NCAA competition in each of his very first two seasons, however has handled speculation surrounding his future for the majority of

the last 2 seasons. They missed the NCAA tournament both years, being named one of the very first 4 teams left out of this year’s field.DeVries will take over a program in desperate requirement of constant success. The Hoosiers, one of the all-time winningest programs in college basketball and a program with five championship games, have advanced past the first weekend of the NCAA competition simply 3 times since reaching the national championship game in 2002. They have actually likewise missed out on six of the last 8 NCAA competitions, under 3 various coaches.DeVries’boy, Tucker, has been at the heart of much of DeVries ‘head training success, earning the Missouri Valley Player of the Year award in both 2023 and 2024 before following him to West Virginia. He played simply 8 games for the Mountaineers this season before missing out on the rest of the project with an upper-body injury. The school is expected to look for a medical redshirt, which would offer him one more year of eligibility-potentially at Indiana.