Tucker DeVries, Conor Enright step into leadership roles at Indiana

The two are the only members of Indiana’s roster who have prior experience with Darian DeVries.

Conor Enright committed to Drake and head coach Darian DeVries in November 2019, a full 11 months before DeVries’ son Tucker, also a member of the class of 2021, announced his pledge to join the Bulldogs.

The two were able to get to know one another during Enright’s visit to Drake’s campus and ended up as roommates during their freshman season.

“We lived in a freshman dorm probably a size smaller than the paint on a basketball court,” the younger DeVries joked after Indiana’s open practice this past week.

DeVries and Enright spent two seasons with the Bulldogs before going their separate ways when the former’s father was hired as the head coach at West Virginia last offseason. Tucker followed Darian to Morgantown while Enright, who’s originally from the Chicago area, committed to play for DePaul.

Another job change this offseason took Darian from West Virginia to Indiana. Tucker once again followed his father while Enright entered the transfer portal and ended up as the Hoosiers’ first offseason commitment not named DeVries.

The Hoosiers faced a full offseason rebuild and ended up signing twelve new players while retaining freshman Trent Sisley. Enright and DeVries are the only two members of Indiana’s 2025-26 roster with prior experience being coached by Darian DeVries.

That showed in practice clips Indiana shared on social media when Tucker was among the more vocal members of the roster during drills and Enright brought consistent energy on both sides of the floor:

Asked about the energy level at practice, Enright said he’s a bit more used to it thanks to his prior experience being coached by DeVries

“I’m trying to get some of the guys used to it as well,” Enright said. “It replicates a game in a sense of how mentally taxing a game is. It’s nonstop.”

The younger DeVries emphasized how important energy is during practices, with his father echoing that sentiment later.

“I think creating that type of talk and energy on a daily basis leads to productivity on the floor, too,” Darian DeVries said. “And then the pace that we practice, we try to really kind of simulate how we want to play out on the game day floor. So everything we do, there’s not a lot of downtime, not a lot of extra talking. We want to play fast, play aggressive and keep things moving.”

That acclimation has been eased by the presence of Enright and Tucker, with the two leading vocally and by example during the Hoosiers’ practices. Indiana will need that when the season arrives this autumn.