Indiana Basketball Included In First ESPN Bracketology Prediction

BLOOMINGTON, Ind.

Apparently, its never too early for bracketology.

Though teams arent finished building their rosters and that were less than a month removed from the end of the 2024-25 season, the soothsayers are at work trying to ascertain the 2025-26 field.

Joe Lunardi, ESPNs pioneer of bracketology, released his first bracket for the 2025-26 season this week.

Based on what Indiana coach Darian DeVries has added to the Hoosiers, Lunardi is feeling somewhat bullish about Indianas chances to return to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2023.

Lunardi isnt gung ho on Indianas chances.

He has the Hoosiers in as a First Four team.

He has Indiana paired with Marquette in a battle of 10-seeds.

Lunardi has the winner advancing to play Mississippi State in a first round game at Portland.

That would be a repeat of the 2022 NCAA Tournament when Indiana advanced from Dayton to play Saint Marys in Portland.

Its not likely Indiana would play Marquette in the NCAA Tournament.

The Hoosiers and Golden Eagles play one another in the regular season and the NCAA tries to avoid regular season matchups in the early rounds.

Of course, its early bracketology, so all of the above is speculatory by nature anyway.

Lunardi has 12 Big Ten teams in his field.

He has Purdue as a No.

1 seed.

Also included are Michigan (No.

2), Michigan State (No.

4), UCLA (No.

4), USC (No.

4), Ohio State (No.

5), Wisconsin (No.

6) Illinois (No.

7), Oregon (No.

8), Iowa (No.

9) and Maryland (No.

10).

Indiana did not make the tournament in the past two seasons despite having rosters that had good individual talent.

DeVries has added 10 players via the transfer portal.

Sam Alexis (Florida), Reed Bailey (Davidson), Tayton Conerway (Troy), Tucker DeVries (West Virginia), Nick Dorn (Elon), Jason Drake (Drexel), Conor Enright (DePaul), Josh Harris (North Florida), Jasai Miles (North Florida) and Lamar Wilkerson (Sam Houston) were all added.

Indiana will also have true freshman Trent Sisley and might have Luke Goode back.

Goodes waiver request for his sophomore season at Illinois has not yet been addressed.

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