Indiana men’s basketball 2026-27 player preview: Markus Burton

Indiana needed to reload its backcourt after losing Conor Enright, Lamar Wilkerson and Tayton Conerway to graduation, and everyone else to the portal. Darian DeVries went out and landed one of the best point guard prospects in the portal, Markus Burton, who was the sixth best point guard in this transfer class, per 247Sports.

Burton comes to Indiana after three seasons at Notre Dame, but will have two years of eligibility left under the new NCAA’s five-year window rule. He’s a guy who’s been productive since his first day of college basketball and should be again this year once he’s fully recovered from the injury that shortened his last season.

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G Markus Burton

Role: Starting point guard

Previous school: Notre Dame

While he wasn’t playing for winning Irish teams, Burton has literally been a day-one starter, starting all 33 games as a freshman and averaging over 33 minutes per game. He led the team in scoring and assists per game as a freshman, with 17.5 and 4.5, respectively.

Burton led Notre Dame in scoring in all three seasons he spent in South Bend, but his sophomore year was his most prolific as a scorer. He averaged 21.3 points per game that year with games of 42, 33, and 30 points on the season.

2024-25 was also Burton’s best year from three point range, as he averaged 37.5% on just short of five attempts per game. His shooting appeared to regress a bit last season, but he only played ten games, so it’s hard to say how representative that is. He’s always shot above 82% from the free throw line, so there are signs that he can be a good shooter consistently.

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Really the only question surrounding Burton this year will be how he settles into his role, now that he has more talent around him than he ever did at Notre Dame. His assist rate was closer to what you’d expect from a DeVries point guard his freshman year, but went back up again as a junior when he had Jalen Haralson on the floor with him.

A lot of this will depend on what DeVries wants him to do,…

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Publish date : 2026-10-29 18:00:00

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