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One of the most prestigious programs in men’s college basketball has picked its new leader.
Indiana has hired West Virginia’s Darian DeVries as its next head coach, the university announced Tuesday.
In what would be his lone season with the Mountaineers, DeVries went 19-13 overall and 10-10 in the Big 12 despite a season-ending injury limiting his son — Tucker, the team’s No. 2 scorer and the two-time Missouri Valley Conference player of the year — to just eight games. West Virginia was widely projected to make the NCAA Tournament, but was shockingly the first team left out of the field.
Prior to West Virginia, DeVries was the head coach for six seasons at Drake, where he went 150-55 and guided the Bulldogs to the NCAA Tournament in three of his final four seasons.
“We went into this coaching search with some very specific things we were looking for in our next head coach, and Darian emerged as someone who, on paper, met and often exceeded our criteria,” Indiana athletic director Scott Dolson said in a statement. “Once we had a chance to talk to him, we knew we had the right person. Darian has a plan for building a championship culture that can compete at the highest level on a year-in, year-out basis.”
Given how little he played this season, Tucker DeVries has the option of applying for a medical redshirt with the NCAA for another season of eligibility and could follow his father.
At Indiana, the elder DeVries will inherit a challenge that many have accepted, but few, if any, have lived up to in the 25 years since Bob Knight’s firing — once again making the Hoosiers a perennial national championship contender.
Indiana has made the NCAA Tournament just nine times in the past 22…
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