Will a sixth year finally be what connects Indianapolis native Nijel Pack and IU basketball?
The Hoosiers are one of a handful of schools focusing on Pack for his final season of eligibility. According to a report by Jeff Goodman, Indiana, Kansas, Oklahoma, Clemson and Kansas State are the main schools after Pack.
Over 122 games, Pack has compiled a highly productive college basketball career that started with two years at Kansas State before the last three at Miami (Fla.).
The 6-foot and 185-pound guard has scored 1,745 points and has a 14.3 points per game career average with 121 starts. He’s a career 44.3% shooter from the field overall, including 40.3% from three on 776 attempts from beyond the arc (6.4 attempts from three per game). Pack has also averaged 3.1 rebounds, 3.0 assists and shoots 82.7% from the free throw line.
Pack has averaged at least 12.7 points and shot at least 35.7% from three in each of his five seasons.
After an injury ended his 2024-25 season, Pack is seeking a sixth year of college basketball via a medical hardship waiver. That places him in the same boat as IU’s Luke Goode and Tucker DeVries. Pack played the first nine games of the 2024-25 season before suffering a season-ending ankle injury. Like DeVries, he should have very favorable facts to obtain the waiver. The two main NCAA requirements have historically been that a player suffer a season-ending injury and play in less than 30% of their team’s games. Pack can check both of those boxes.
His junior year Pack played a key role in the Hurricanes reaching their first Final Four in school history. His Miami team knocked Indiana out of the tournament in the round of 32, and Pack was named the Midwest Region Most Outstanding Player.
In 2022 Pack made headlines when he signed with the Hurricanes as one of highest-paid players in college basketball at that time, inking a reported $800,000 dollars over two years.
Pack was a four-star recruit out of Lawrence Central H.S. in the class of 2020.
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