Since the conclusion of the 2024-25 Indiana basketball season, the Hoosiers have seen an overhaul of the men's hoops program under new head coach Darrian DeVries. During the spring transfer portal window over the past couple of months, Indiana has greatly turned over the roster since the departure of now-former head coach Mike Woodson early this offseason for 2025.
In this day and age of college hoops and the transfer portal movement and NIL for the Big Ten conference, Indiana expected there to be plenty of roster attrition and turnover early this offseason.
Bryson Tucker, F
Freshman guard Bryson Tucker was one of the most recent spring portal departures who had multiple years of eligibility remaining with the Hoosiers. Tucker has three years of eligibility remaining after spending one season with Indiana in Bloomington.
Tucker averaged over five points per game for Woodson and the Hoosiers this past season, including double-digit scoring contests in wins over UNC-Greensboro and Minnesota in Big Ten play.
Committed to Washington
Kanaan Carlyle, G
Former Indiana and Stanford transfer sophomore guard Kanaan Carlyle is in the transfer portal for the second time in as many offseasons this spring in the first portal window full for 2025. Carlyle averaged four points per game, 1.2 assists, and 1.6 rebounds over 25 games played and a half dozen starts for Indiana this past season in the 2024-25 campaign in the Big Ten.
Myles Rice, G
Indiana's top guard on the offensive end of the floor this past season in the Big Ten, former Washington State transfer and 2023-24 Pac-12 Freshman of the Year Myles Rice, scored in double figures for the Hoosiers for the starting backcourt.
Rice scored at least 20 points and three assists in three double-digit wins for the Hoosiers this past season in 2024-25.
Committed to Maryland
Mackenzie Mgbako, F
The 6-foot-8 and 215-pound sophomore forward Mackenzie Mgbako opted to transfer to the Texas A&M Aggies in the SEC after entering the portal and declaring early for the 2025 NBA Draft this spring early this offseason. He averaged a dozen points per game and over four rebounds in each of the past two seasons for the Hoosiers and Woodson.
Mgbako is a former top-100-ranked recruit in the nation who was a McDonald's All-American power forward with the 2023 recruiting class coming out of high school from Roselle Catholic in Gladstone, NJ.
Committed to Texas A&M
Jakai Newton, G
Former top-150-ranked high school recruit in the nation from the 2023 recruiting class from Covington (GA) Newton High School in the Southeast in Georgia, redshirt freshman guard Jakai Newton spent the past two seasons working his way back from various injury problems at Indiana.
This past season at Indiana, Newton played only four games due to recurring injury issues that kept him out for most of the campaign for the Hoosiers.
Newton is brimming with potential, given his two-way raw talent and athletic 6-foot-10 wingspan on the defensive end of the floor from high school in Georgia. He has three years of eligibility remaining.
Committed to Georgia State
Malik Reneau, PF
The big 6-foot-9 and 235-pound power forward Malik Reneau was arguably Indiana's most impactful spring transfer departure early this offseason in the portal window over the past couple of months. Reneau led Indiana in scoring (13.3 points per game) this past season in the Big Ten.
Scoring in double figures in a team-high 19 games for the Hoosiers this past season in 2024-25, Reneau was a key forward who helped score in clutch time in two upset ranked wins in the Big Ten down the stretch at a critical time.
Committed to Miami
Dallas James, C
California native and seven-footer center Dallas James has one year of eligibility remaining after spending one year with the Hoosiers in the Big Ten this past season for 2024-25. James spent four seasons at South Carolina State before transferring to Indiana last offseason in 2024.
Gabe Cupps, G
Former highly-touted four-star guard recruit from Dayton (OH) Centerville High School in the Midwest, Gabe Cupps, spent two years at Indiana before transferring early this offseason in the spring portal.
He will be taking his talents to another Big Ten school, returning to his home state of Ohio, where he was Mr. Basketball in Ohio a few years ago in 2022. Cupps scored two points, two assists, and one steal in Indiana's win in Columbus over Ohio State in the Big Ten in the 2024-25 season.
Cupps missed most of this past season for the Hoosiers due to an injury, limiting him to only four games played for Woodson and Indiana.
Committed to Ohio State