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BLOOMINGTON — Indiana basketball’s new coach Darian DeVries will be introduced at Assembly Hall on Wednesday afternoon.
Indiana athletic director Scott Dolson will get an opportunity to talk about how the hire came together and the press conference will allow DeVries a chance to outline his vision for the Hoosiers, but fans looking to get some early insight into both those topics can look back over the last 12 months.
Here’s three quotes that help explain why IU hired DeVries and what he will bring to the table as coach:
The substance of Baker’s description is similar to the one Scott Dolson shared in a statement the team released on Tuesday night. Dolson said he knew DeVries was the right fit for the job after hearing his plan “for building a championship culture.”
It’s reminiscent of what Dolson said when he touted the “winning blueprint” that Curt Cignetti laid out for him in their first sit down meeting. Dolson runs the athletic department the same way, and his approach is tied directly to his experience working as a student manager under former Indiana coach Bob Knight.
Knight taught Dolson about having a clear-eyes approach to program-building.
“It’s still the way I work today,” Dolson said in an interview with The Herald-Times in August 2023. “He really had a system, he knew this is how we are going to recruit, this the type of players we want, this how we are going to develop them and this how we are going to play.”
DeVries’ vision has won over multiple athletic directors in the same year.
What will IU’s style of play be like?
DeVries has stressed the importance of being adaptable in recent years — he had to replace double-digit scholarship players in each of his last two seasons as coach — but there’s been some core principles he leans into.
He…
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