IU basketball transfer portal spotlight: Bryce Lindsay
- Alex Bozich
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IU basketball has added seven players this spring from the transfer portal. Player by player, we’ll take a look at each addition in our “transfer portal spotlight” series.
Today: Bryce Lindsay
Previously: Jaeden Mustaf, Darren Harris, Markus Burton, Samet Yigitoglu, Aiden Sherrell
Bio: 6-foot-3, 194-pound guard from Baltimore, Maryland
Previous schools: Texas A&M (2023-24), James Madison (2024-25), Villanova (2025-26)
Career stats: 11.6 points, 2.2 rebounds, two assists, 0.6 steals in 26.6 minutes per game over three seasons. Lindsay is a career 41.5 percent field-goal shooter, a 37.7 percent 3-point shooter and a 78.9 percent free-throw shooter.
Notable statistics: Lindsay is one of 30 players over the last two seasons to make at least 160 3-pointers and shoot better than 37.5 percent from distance. He has 43 career games scoring in double figures and has nine games with 20 or more points. He scored 25 points and made six 3-pointers in Villanova’s 86-76 loss to Utah State in the 2026 NCAA tournament.
Recruitment background
After starting 31 of 33 games last season, Lindsay entered the transfer portal following his third season of college basketball. He began his career at Texas A&M, where he appeared in just eight games as a freshman before a season-ending injury. He was the Sun Belt freshman and sixth man of the year as a redshirt freshman at James Madison in the 2024-25 season. Before he transferred to Villanova in the spring of 2025, Indiana was among the schools involved in his recruitment.
Lindsay’s commitment to Indiana came as a surprise as he hadn’t been publicly linked to the program this portal cycle and pledged to the Hoosiers on Wednesday, April 15, the same day IU landed big man Aiden Sherrell.
Like the majority of IU’s transfer portal additions this spring, Lindsay will have two seasons of eligibility remaining.
Notes on his game
A three-star prospect out of high school, Lindsay is a combo-guard who started his career at the high-major level under Buzz Williams at Texas A&M, broke out at James Madison and then averaged double figures last season at Villanova.
Indiana will be his fourth school in four seasons and he’ll likely start in the backcourt alongside point guard Markus Burton and also handle some point guard minutes when Burton goes to the bench. He’s a capable ball handler and effective in ball-screen situations.
Known for his perimeter shooting, Lindsay shot 40.8 percent from distance in the 2024-25 season at James Madison on 213 attempts and followed that up with 35.8 percent from deep last season at Villanova on 219 attempts. Along with Darren Harris, he’ll be expected to take – and make – a high volume of 3s next winter in Bloomington.
His efficiency did fall off in Big East play, as he connected on just 34 of his 122 3-point attempts last season for Villanova in conference games. He did, however, finish the season on a high note with the big performance against Utah State in the NCAA tournament.
Defensively, he’s quick, moves his feet and should be able to guard opposing point guards and two-guards as well. His primary value to Indiana will be as a spot-up shooter, with Burton acting as IU’s primary ball handler and facilitator. For Lindsay to provide the most value for the Hoosiers, he’ll need to connect on the open perimeter looks he receives while playing solid defense and taking care of the ball.
Scouting report
“This season for Bryce Lindsay was an interesting one. Coming into the year, the transfer from James Madison was expected to be in the same sixth-man role that he was in for the Dukes, where he also won the Sun Belt Conference Sixth Man of the Year. But due to Devin Askew’s offseason injury, Lindsay started the opener against BYU. And that was all she wrote, as the sophomore scored 22 points against the ranked Cougars in Las Vegas and never relinquished the role (except on Senior Night).
“Lindsay’s out-of-conference performance continued to impress, as he entered Big-East play averaging 16.7 points per game. Those averages dipped all the way down to 9.4 points per contest during conference play, including the Big East Quarterfinal. If you take out the first three games, that average reduces even further to 8.1 points per game. This is all to say: Lindsay was in a two-month swoon.
“Of course, he finished the season on a great note, with yet another prolific performance against a Utah-based opponent. Against Utah State, Lindsay scored 25 points and shot 9-for-18 from the floor. It’s scary to think where Villanova would have been in that game had he not reverted back to his out-of-conference self.- ” VUHoops.com
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