At least two Indiana basketball players will begin summer workouts with some degree of limitations on the extent of their participation.
But those restrictions should be lifted relatively quickly, and at least in the case of anticipated star wing Tucker DeVries, perhaps as soon as next week.
IU’s players are arriving on campus this weekend and will begin organized team activities next week, including on the court workouts.
DeVries suffered a shoulder injury in December that ultimately required surgery in February. He’s now at the end of the roughly three month recovery window his father, IU head coach Darian DeVries, laid out just ahead of the procedure.
Everything appears to be on track.
“For the most part, we are getting closer, we are awaiting final clearance for the full contact,” coach DeVries said Wednesday evening at an alumni event. “He’s able to do all the shooting drill work, lifting that’s modified a little bit. I think by the time we get rolling here next week he should be fully cleared for full contact.”
As further evidence Tucker is nearing a return, he can be seen working with trainer Jordan Basye in a video released this week.
It was the second time Tucker had right shoulder surgery in the span of less than a year. He also had surgery on the shoulder in March of 2024, following the completion of his junior season at Drake. He was medically cleared to play four months later, just prior to West Virginia leaving for an exhibition tour of Italy. This year he should have plenty of time to be ready for Indiana’s summer tour in Puerto Rico August 5-12.
Tucker played in eight games last season before the injury, averaging 14.9 points per game, while shooting 26 of 55 (47%) from 3-point range. He’s seeking a hardship waiver to play a fifth season and has a good fact pattern for that to be approved.
Meanwhile Tucker’s former Drake teammate Conor Enright will arrive on campus in Bloomington with limitations — also due to a shoulder injury.
Enright suffered a torn right labrum in the 2023-24 season that nagged him to the point of needing surgery in early February of 2025.
He should have a chance to play for IU in Puerto Rico.
“I’ll be on track to be 100 percent by the end of July,” Enright told The Daily Hoosier on the East 17th Street podcast.
“I’ll be able to do a bunch of conditioning, workouts and non-contact stuff (before he’s 100 percent).”
Enright was averaging 8.1 points and 7.2 assists per game for DePaul while shooting 40.8% from three ahead of an early January game at Villanova when he reaggravated the injury. He attempted to play through it for a month before shutting things down.
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