Indiana fans are likely to get their first look at Nick Dorn on Wednesday evening.
The 6-foot-7 Dorn has been out for months after having foot surgery, but head coach Darian DeVries gave a promising update Monday during his first appearance on the Inside Indiana Basketball radio show.
“We do hope to have Nick available for Wednesday,” DeVries told Don Fischer. “That was great news for us. He did go back and got some good reports today. That was awesome for us.
“We’ll still see Wednesday what that looks like for him because he’s still working his way back getting in shape and going through full practices which he was starting to do last week. Excited to get him out there and see what he can do. He’s certainly on the right track right now.”
Dorn did not play in any of IU’s exhibitions or summer games in Puerto Rico.
The 6-foot-7 and 223-pound Dorn has long been expected to be a key contributor on this year’s team if he could get healthy. He averaged 15.2 points and 3.8 rebounds in 30.7 minutes per game for Elon last season. Dorn missed the last few weeks of the 2024-25 season with a foot injury.
DeVries clarified in September that Dorn had a foot fracture (Jones fracture) last season, and the procedure subsequently had to be redone.
“It’s been frustrating but everything happened for a reason,” Dorn told TDH in September. “Life keeps going, you can’t keep dwelling on it. You’ve gotta focus on the solution.”
Indiana opens the 2025-26 season on Wednesday against Alabama A&M in Bloomington.
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