2025-26 IU basketball player profile: Jasai Miles

IU basketball wing Jasai Miles throws a pass at open practice in late July, 2025.

With the start of college basketball season approaching, we’ve transitioned from our look at other Big Ten programs to our player-by-player previews of the 2025-26 IU basketball roster.

Today, our player profiles continue with junior Jasai Miles.

Previously: Andrej Acimovic, Trent Sisley, Aleksa Ristic, Josh Harris

As a freshman at North Florida, Jasai Miles got a chance to learn from one of the top mid-major scorers in the country, Chaz Lanier.

Once Lanier left the Ospreys following the 2023-24 season for Tennessee, it provided Miles an opportunity to step into a more prominent role as a sophomore.

Miles, a 6-foot-6, 210-pound native of Miami, took advantage of the opportunity.

In his second season in the ASUN, Miles earned All-ASUN third team honors and started all 32 games for North Florida.

He was the team’s leading scorer at 15.4 points per game and second-leading rebounder at 6.8 per game. Miles was one of two players in the country last season to score at least 450 points, grab 200 rebounds and connect on 75 3-point attempts. He was 78-for-233 on 3s last season, good for 33.5 percent.

With double-figure scoring outputs against several high-major programs – South Carolina, Georgia Tech, Nebraska and Florida – Miles showed himself capable of competing with the nation’s best.

Following his breakout second season at North Florida, he entered the transfer portal and committed to the Hoosiers on April 16.

In an IU offense under Darian DeVries that prioritizes 3-point shooting, Miles was impressed with the coaching staff’s plan to use him.

“Coach just sees a lot of areas in his offense that he thinks I’ll be successful in,” he told Inside the Hall in April. “With my shooting abilities and also just rebounding.

“He wants me to keep working and developing just to become better at those things. He thinks I can be a really key piece in the offense for this team. Just overall, coach just had a really calm demeanor about him and I just really liked the energy I got from him. It felt all genuine. I’m excited.”

Miles arrived on IU’s campus early in the summer and played in each of IU’s three games in Puerto Rico.

However, he struggled with his perimeter shooting and scoring on the trip.

In 14.9 minutes per game, Miles averaged three points, four rebounds, one assist and one turnover. He shot just 25 percent from the field, including only 12.5 percent on 3s.

As IU’s first exhibition grows closer, the hope is that Miles can provide a scoring punch off the bench. In last week’s Cream and Crimson scrimmage, he struggled with his perimeter shot, but he was coming off an illness earlier in the week.

In an IU wing rotation that also includes Lamar Wilkerson, Tucker DeVries and Nick Dorn, Miles will have stiff competition for minutes and will need to shoot the ball well from 3, defend well and hit the glass hard to earn consistent minutes.

Bottom line: Miles is a confident player who showed that he could score at all three levels last season at North Florida. His rebounding numbers were excellent for a wing and he shot a solid percentage from 3 on high volume. He didn’t shoot the ball well in Puerto Rico or in last week’s scrimmage, so the consistency of his perimeter shot is something to watch as the 2025-26 season tips off in Bloomington.

Quotable: “I’m a great rebounder and a good shooter. I’m still going to improve my shooting percentage even more. Just work on mechanics and work on getting my percentage and efficiency higher. I’m great getting downhill to my right to the basket and I’m just going to keep growing that strength and confidence with my left hand. Just overall, I’m going to play hard every play and bring intensity and energy and make winning plays.” – Miles in the spring, when asked to break down the strengths and weaknesses of his game.

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