2025-26 IU basketball player profile: Conor Enright

Conor Enright handles the ball in an IU practice.

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 senior Conor Enright.

Previously: Andrej Acimovic, Trent Sisley, Aleksa Ristic, Josh Harris, Jasai Miles, Nick Dorn, Jason Drake, Lamar Wilkerson

One of two players on the 2025-26 roster with previous experience playing for Darian DeVries, Conor Enright arrives in Bloomington after spending last season at DePaul.

A native of Mundelein, Illinois, the 6-foot-1 Enright signed with DeVries at Drake in the 2021 recruiting class.

At the time of Enright’s arrival, DeVries was three seasons into his rebuild at Drake and was coming off a 26-5 season and a trip to the NCAA tournament.

Enright sat out his freshman season as a redshirt for the Bulldogs, but was a program stalwart the next two seasons in the Missouri Valley Conference.

As a redshirt freshman, Enright earned MVC All-Freshman team honors despite statistical contributions that don’t jump off the page. He averaged 4.1 points, 2.2 rebounds and 1.6 assists per game. Dating back to his time as a recruit, Enright’s impact on the floor has been more about the intangibles and making the little plays that impact winning.

“I think he’s just one of those guys that plays like every possession’s the last possession of the game,” DeVries told Inside the Hall over the summer. “He plays incredibly hard. He loves to compete. He’s fast, he’s got a little flare to him. I think fans are going to enjoy the way he approaches the game.”

In his second season on the floor at Drake, Enright’s role grew from reserve to a starter in all 33 games. On a team that finished 28-7, Enright averaged 6.9 points, 3.2 assists, 3.2 rebounds and a steal in 26.1 minutes per game.

DeVries left Drake for West Virginia at the end of the 2023-24 season and rather than following him to Morgantown, Enright wanted to get closer to home and transferred to DePaul last season.

Despite battling a shoulder injury that ultimately forced him to cut his season short after 23 games, Enright averaged 6.2 assists per game and had the 16th-best assist rate in the country.

While unexpected, DeVries and Enright have now reunited for his final season of eligibility in Bloomington.

DeVries took the IU job in March and Enright entered the transfer portal in hopes of finding a spot where he could win in his final season. He was already familiar with IU because his brother went to school in Bloomington.

“Honestly, I was a fan of Indiana just because of my brother (Kyle) going there,” Enright explained. “I kind of always liked Indiana and they didn’t have a coach, so I thought it was an option depending on who got the job. And then coach (Darian) DeVries gets the job, who I’ve known since I was 15, so it was kind of a perfect storm in that sense.”

Now fully recovered from offseason shoulder surgery, Enright is expected to be a pivotal part of IU’s rotation this winter.

He was a starter in the program’s three exhibition games in Puerto Rico and his familiarity with DeVries and the system makes him one of the team’s on-court leaders.

Offensively, he’s an excellent facilitator and is a career 37.1 percent 3-point shooter. Defensively, he’s a pest who can pressure the ball and get under the skin of the opposition.

Whether his spot is ultimately as a starter or as a key reserve once the roster gets healthy, Enright is a selfless player who only cares about one thing: winning.

“I’ve got one year left and I want an opportunity to make a deep run in the NCAA tournament,” Enright said last spring. “I think with how much I trust coach DeVries, I know he’s a winner and combined with Indiana being a winning program, that’s the perfect combination. Just winning is the biggest thing.”

Bottom line: Enright will be a fan favorite in Bloomington because of his workman-like approach to the game. He plays every possession hard and with a lot of emotion. His numbers won’t be eye-popping, but he’ll bring energy and enthusiasm every game and will appreciate the opportunity to wear the IU uniform.

Quotable: “He didn’t score a point in the game, and he dominated the game because he had like eight assists, he dove on the floor three times, he took a couple of charges. Like I just left thinking, ‘I love this kid.’ And he didn’t score a point. But it’s just kind of contagious to everybody else. I think it’s an infectious way to play and I think fans will enjoy him.” – DeVries on watching Enright play for the first time in high school.

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