Indiana men’s basketball’s first season under Darian DeVries came to an end when the Hoosiers didn’t receive a bid for the 2026 NCAA Tournament. The Hoosiers finished 18-14 overall and 9-11 in Big Ten play, with a late collapse ending their March Madness hopes.
We’ll be recapping and analyzing DeVries’ first season in a few different ways from individual players to other lineups and trends.
Trent Sisley
- Final statline: PTS, REB, AST
- Role: Bench F
Stats provided by KenPom or CBB Analytics.
Trent Sisley was Indiana’s lone freshman this season, having committed
under Mike Woodson as a long sought-after in-state prospect before holding firm during the coaching transition to DeVries. It was clear heading into 2025-26 that if Sisley was going to have any kind of role, it was going to be from the bench. Indiana’s senior-laden portal class just about made sure of that.
Sisley’s senior season at Montverde provided a glimpse into the kind of impact player he can be at the college level as a complimentary piece. He was effective there because he knew how to find open space as a shooter or cutter and his teammates knew how to find him. He played against high level competition at Montverde, but the Big Ten is an entirely different situation and space was significantly more difficult to come by.
As such, Sisley’s minutes declined pretty steeply once the Hoosiers got into the thick of conference play. He performed well during much of Indiana’s non-conference slate and earned minutes as a result but his production declined against high major competition. There was more than a bit of angst when Indiana kept losing while Sisley was on the bench, but everything about it was pretty natural. Rotations shorten in late season games and freshmen hit a wall.
Most of Sisley’s production came exactly where his scoring has to be, either beyond the 3-point line or right at the rim. As a freshman, he didn’t convert all that well at either spot, hitting under 30% on 3s and 60% at the rim.
This is not, at all, to say this is what Sisley is gonna be. Again, he was a freshman and this just happens with freshmen a lot of the time. Give him more time to develop and those numbers could change.
