Two of the six IU basketball players who entered the transfer portal have committed to new schools

IU basketball sophomore forward Josh Harris.

It’s been a busy spring for IU basketball in terms of roster additions and subtractions.

As Darian DeVries and the coaching staff prepare for the 2026-27 season, six new players have committed to join the program from the transfer portal.

Jaeden Mustaf (Notre Dame), Darren Harris (Duke), Markus Burton (Notre Dame), Samet Yigitoglu (SMU), Aiden Sherrell (Alabama) and Bryce Lindsay (Villanova) are the six roster additions for next winter.

Of those six, IU has officially announced the signings of Mustaf, Harris, Yigitoglu and Sherrell.

There were also six program departures this spring via the transfer portal in Jason Drake, Jasai Miles, Josh Harris, Nick Dorn, Andrej Acimovic and Aleksa Ristic.

The portal closed for new entries over a week ago, but there’s no firm deadline for players in the portal to choose a new school.

Of the six IU players from the 2025-26 roster who entered the portal earlier this month, only two of them have committed to a new school.

The two players who have chosen their next stop are Harris, who did not play last season due to injuries and Ristic, who played a total of 25 minutes after joining the program last summer.

Harris, a native of Pembroke Pines, Florida, is headed back to Florida. He committed to Florida Atlantic University earlier this month. The FAU campus, located in Boca Raton, is about 30 miles from where Harris is from.

Florida Atlantic was also the transfer destination for Kanaan Carlyle, who was on IU’s 2o24-25 roster and left the program in the spring of 2025.

As a freshman at North Florida in the 2024-25 season, Harris averaged 13.4 points and 7.1 rebounds while earning ASUN All-Freshman team honors.

Ristic, a native of Serbia, is headed to the Missouri Valley Conference.

The 6-foot-3, 200-pound guard recently committed to Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. The Bruins underwent a coaching change this spring as Casey Alexander left for Kansas State and Evan Bradds, a former assistant coach at Duke, was named the new head coach on March 19.

Ristic should get a chance at more playing time at Belmont, a solid mid-major program that typically finishes in the top 125 nationally in KenPom.

As a freshman at IU, Ristic played in 12 games off the bench and averaged 0.5 points in 2.5 minutes per game.

With Harris and Ristic off the board, four former Hoosiers remain uncommitted in the portal in Drake, Miles, Dorn and Acimovic.

Indiana currently has 10 scholarship players on its roster for the 2026-27 season and isn’t expected to have more than 13 players.

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