IU basketball transfer portal names to know: Davidson’s Reed Bailey

Indiana is a contender for one of the top players in the Atlantic 10 Conference — Davidson transfer forward Reed Bailey.

The Atlantic 10 Conference’s top scorer, Bailey was named the league’s Most Improved Player and to the A-10 First Team. He has one year of eligibility remaining.

As a junior this season, the 6-foot-10 and 230-pound Bailey averaged 18.8 points and added 6.1 rebounds and 3.8 assists while shooting 47.7% overall including 41.5% from three on 41 attempts.

He turned in 14 20-point games and scored in double figures 30 times. He was one rebound shy of a triple-double at Rhode Island Jan. 18, finishing with 30 points, a career-best 11 assists and nine boards. He scored a career-high 32 points at Richmond Jan. 25, and in a six-day span in February, he had double-doubles against Loyola-Chicago (19 points, career-high 14 rebounds) and UMass (21 points, 10 rebounds).

Bailey led the A-10 in free throws attempted (221) and made (170), was second with 201 field goals made and also ranked among the league leaders in field goal percentage (.480, 7th), assists per game (3.8, 9th) and rebounds per game (6.3, 12th).

Bailey increased his scoring average from 12.7 to 18.8 points per game. He improved his production in nearly every statistical category this season, including in field goal percentage (42.4% to 47.7%), 3-point percentage (21.7% to 41.5%), rebounds per game (5.8 to 6.1), assists per game (1.4 to 3.8) and total blocks (9 to 25).

As a sophomore in 2023-24, he appeared and started in all 32 games. He averaged 9.2 points per game, shooting 44.8 percent from the floor, and pulled down 5.8 rebounds per game.

As a freshman in 2022-23 Bailey started all 32 games and scored in double figures five times.

Bailey is from Harvard, Mass. and attended Brewster Academy for high school.