While it has received less coverage than requests by Luke Goode and Anthony Leal, transfer forward Tucker DeVries also needed a medical hardship waiver to play a fifth season for Indiana in 2025-26.
The Daily Hoosier has confirmed DeVries’ waiver request has been approved by the NCAA and he is eligible to play for the Hoosiers during the upcoming 2025-26 season. He was announced by the program as signed on Monday morning. IU listed him at 6-foot-7 and 210 pounds on their roster released Monday.
A two-time Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year, he has produced 1,986 points, 626 rebounds, 283 assists, 139 steals, and 61 blocks in four seasons with Drake and West Virginia. He has started 105-straight games over the last four seasons playing for his father at both Drake (2021-24) and West Virginia (2024-25). Tucker has averaged 17.7 points, 5.6 rebounds, 2.5 assists, and 1.5 steals per game in 112 career games, and shot 43.5% (666-of-1,530) from the floor, 36.7% (276-of-752) from the 3-point line, and 81.3% (378-of-465) from the free throw line.
Tucker played 36, 34, and 34 games over his first three seasons of college basketball, all at Drake. As a senior this past season at West Virginia, he played in eight games before suffering a season-ending shoulder injury that ultimately required surgery. For West Virginia in 2024-25, Tucker averaged 14.9 points, 4.9 rebounds and 2.8 assists and shot 47.3% from three on 6.9 attempts per game before his season was cut short by injury.
Tucker and his new IU teammates arrived on campus over the weekend and began team activities on Monday morning. Following February shoulder surgery, Tucker is expected to be fully cleared for all basketball activities any time, possibly as soon as this week.
Tucker’s father, head coach Darian DeVries, said last week medical hardship waiver requests submitted by Goode and Leal had not yet been approved.
While Tucker’s fact pattern is on all fours with requests typically approved by the NCAA, Goode and Leal’s cases are less clear.
Historically there have been two key criteria to obtain the waiver. First, the player should not have appeared in more than 30% of their team’s games in the applicable season, and second, they should not have appeared in the second half of that season.
Watch: IU basketball forward Tucker DeVries getting in a workout
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