{"id":214268,"date":"2025-09-10T01:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T01:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/214268\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T01:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T01:25:09","slug":"indiana-mens-basketball-ranked-no-9-in-big-ten-on-blue-ribbon-yearbook-2025-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/214268\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana men’s basketball ranked No. 9 in Big Ten on Blue Ribbon Yearbook 2025 preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Preseason polls are rolling in ahead of the 2024-2025 season and Indiana’s Men’s Basketball <\/a>is on the boards in the Big Ten.<\/p>\n

The Indiana Hoosiers are ranked No. 9 in the Big Ten Conference by Blue Ribbon Yearbook\u2019s Top 25 rankings featured in the publication\u2019s 2024-25 college basketball season preview<\/a>. The digital edition was released earlier this week.<\/p>\n

Last season, Indiana was picked to finish in first<\/a> place in the Blue Ribbon Yearbook preseason poll, but disappointed in 2024 with a 20-12 record finishing 10th in the B1G.<\/p>\n

New head coach Darian DeVries rebuilt the IU roster from nothing with all new players on the new team. The top additions are Reed Bailey <\/strong><\/a>, a 6\u201910\u201d forward transferring in from Davidson, Lamar Wilkerson, a 6\u20195\u201d guard coming from Sam Houston State and Tucker DeVries a West Virginia transfer who played in eight games last season. Tucker, son of head coach Darian was a two-time Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) Player of the Year while at Drake University.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Blue Ribbon preseason top 25 rankings include five Big Ten teams: Purdue (No. 2), Michigan (No. 9), UCLA (No. 12), Illinois (No. 20) and Wisconsin (No. 21). Oregon, Iowa, Michigan State, Indiana, Washington, Ohio State, USC, Maryland, Nebraska, Northwestern, Minnesota, Rutgers and Penn State round out the rest of the conference. <\/p>\n

The preseason Big Ten all-conference team selected by Blue Ribbon is Smith, Trey Kaufman-Renn (Purdue), Donovan Dent (UCLA), Yaxel Lendeborg (Michigan) and Bennett Stirtz (Iowa). While the pick for Big Ten and National player of The Year went to senior guard Braden Smith of Purdue.<\/p>\n

Blue Ribbon Yearbook is an annual publication previewing the college basketball season since the early 1980s, was recently released in a digital format.<\/p>\n

Blue Ribbon Yearbook’s 2024-25 college basketball preview is available to purchase here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2025-26 Blue Ribbon College Basketball Yearbook Preseason Top 25<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rank<\/strong><\/p>\n

Team<\/strong><\/p>\n

1.<\/p>\n

Florida<\/p>\n

2.<\/p>\n

Purdue<\/p>\n

3.<\/p>\n

Houston<\/p>\n

4.<\/p>\n

Duke<\/p>\n

5.<\/p>\n

Connecticut<\/p>\n

6.<\/p>\n

St. John’s<\/p>\n

7.<\/p>\n

Tennessee<\/p>\n

8.<\/p>\n

Kentucky<\/p>\n

9.<\/p>\n

Michigan<\/p>\n

10.<\/p>\n

Louisville<\/p>\n

11.<\/p>\n

Alabama<\/p>\n

12.<\/p>\n

UCLA<\/p>\n

13.<\/p>\n

Auburn<\/p>\n

14.<\/p>\n

Texas Tech<\/p>\n

15.<\/p>\n

Arkansas<\/p>\n

16.<\/p>\n

BYU<\/p>\n

17.<\/p>\n

Iowa State<\/p>\n

18.<\/p>\n

Kansas<\/p>\n

19.<\/p>\n

Creighton<\/p>\n

20.<\/p>\n

Illinois<\/p>\n

21.<\/p>\n

Wisconsin<\/p>\n

22.<\/p>\n

Arizona<\/p>\n

23.<\/p>\n

Gonzaga<\/p>\n

24.<\/p>\n

Texas<\/p>\n

25.<\/p>\n

North Carolina<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Preseason polls are rolling in ahead of the 2024-2025 season and Indiana’s Men’s Basketball is on the boards…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":214269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1339,1317,1337,1338,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-214268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-basketball","11":"tag-ncaabasketball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115177398183007723","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}