Notre Dame transfer guard Markus Burton is visiting Indiana April 12-14, Joe Tipton of On3 is reporting. He’ll also visit Houston.
We previously covered Burton as a name to know this transfer portal cycle. Now let’s take a closer look at his game.
Burton has played three seasons at Notre Dame, including an injury-shortened third year in which he only appeared in 10 games. He’s got at least one year of remaining eligibility, and likely two if he can get a medical hardship waiver for the 2025-26 season.
He’s listed by Notre Dame at 6-foot and 190 pounds. For comparison, IU listed Yogi Ferrell and 6-foot and 180.
For his career, Burton’s offensive box score plus/minus has been higher than his defense, 2.7 to 1.8. But he’s been positive on both offense and defense all three years in all games, and against top-100 and top-50 competition. He posted his best offensive (4.6) and defensive (2.8) box plus/minus this past season before the injury, and had the best aggregate BPM on the team.
First and foremost, Burton is a scorer. He has averaged 17.5 or more points all three of his college seasons, including 21.3 per game in 2024-25. He also averaged 30.3 points per game as a high school senior at Penn H.S. in northern Indiana, where he won Mr. Basketball in 2023.
Burton has almost exclusively played point guard during his career, and he is a very high usage offensive player. Think the opposite of a pass-first player like Conor Enright. Burton was No. 1 in the ACC in both 2023-24 and 2024-25 in usage and percentage of shots when on the floor. He was No. 11 in usage and No. 10 in percentage of shots nationally as a sophomore.
Indiana would have to utilize a heavy dose of high ball screen offense with the floor spaced with shooters to play to his strengths.
Because he plays point guard with a scoring mentality, Burton’s assist-to-turnover ratio looks a lot different than pass-first facilitators. He has been fairly consistent each season, and averages 3.8 assists to 3.2 turnovers for his career.
Although he’s just 6-foot, Burton has produced respectable rebounding numbers for a guard. He averages 3.4 per game for his career.
Burton showed considerable improvement shooting the ball inside the arc this season before the injury. He was at 55.7% on twos through 10 games, nearly a full nine percentage points better than the prior year. His 3-point percentage was just 30.6 through those 10 games, but he has shown the ability to make threes at a reasonably high volume, including 37.6% on 128 attempts in 2024-25. That included 40.2% in ACC games.
For his career Burton has shot 48% on twos and 33.2% on threes in all games, and 45.5% and 30.6% respectively against Tier-A (top-50) competition.
Burton has drawn more than 5.3 fouls per game over the last two seasons, and he’s an elite free throw shooter, making 91.7% this injury shortened season, and 84.7% for his career.
While he’s a better offensive player, Burton can be a pest on defense. He averages 1.8 steals per game for his career and has been top-250 nationally in steal rate each season, including No. 2 in ACC games (4%) in 2023-24.
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