That’s A Wrap: IU basketball freshman forward Trent Sisley
- Josh Pos
- 3h ago
Welcome to “That’s A Wrap,” our player-by-player recap of the 2025-26 Indiana Hoosiers. Our first profile looks at IU freshman forward Trent Sisley.
Sisley (30 games): 4.2 points, 2.8 rebounds, 11 assists and 43 FG% in 13.2 minutes per game.
A native of Santa Claus, Indiana, Trent Sisley’s freshman season showed glimpses of potential.
The top 100 recruit, who began his high school career at Heritage Hills High School and finished it at Montverde Academy, started the season as one of the first guys off the bench in year one of the Darian DeVries era. He scored his first career points with a tip-in during the first half of the Hoosiers’ season-opening victory against Alabama A&M. Sisley finished with two points, two assists and three rebounds in 17 minutes.
His early success continued in the following game against Marquette in Chicago. Sisley converted seven of his 12 attempts from the field, including a 3-point make in the team’s blowout victory in the Windy City. The freshman’s 15-point output netted him a season-high that would stand the rest of the season.
The 6-foot-8 forward molded into his role off the bench behind Tucker DeVries during the non-conference season, scoring 7.5 points per game in just over 19 minutes per game.
Sisley’s fate would turn after the turn of the calendar year and the beginning of Big Ten play. After shooting 48.6 percent in the first two months of the season, he hit a freshman slump in January. Sisley made just eight shots, shooting 27.6 percent.
The lone bright spot of the first month of 2026 was Sisley’s 10 points against Washington on January 4th in Bloomington. It was the final time the Montverde Academy standout reached double figures in his freshman campaign.
Sisley’s minutes went down after the team’s four-game losing streak in Big Ten play. After playing in 15 minutes per game in the stretch, he saw the floor for eight minutes in IU’s 74-57 loss to the Iowa Hawkeyes.
Sisley was pivotal in Indiana’s win on the road at UCLA in Pauley Pavilion, making the game-winning free throw with less than one second left in double overtime to seal the victory.
Despite his clutch moment, the trend of Sisley’s slide to oblivion on the bench commenced. After posting 15 minutes against UCLA, Sisley saw 37 minutes of game action in the final eight games of the season – a stretch that saw the Hoosiers go 3-5.
There was hope entering the season that Sisley’s 3-point shot and athletic abilities would help anchor the second unit. Sisley’s lack of playing time didn’t allow him to flourish the way he had hoped.
During Big Ten play alone, he shot 31.0 percent, making five of 23 attempts behind the arc and 42.1 percent of shots from the charity stripe.
Bottom line: The lack of playing time effectively diminished the promising opening season of Sisley’s Indiana career. With Indiana graduating six guys ahead of him in the rotation, Sisley will have a chance to shine in his sophomore season in Bloomington. He has the talent to step into a more significant role next season, but he will have to improve his numbers from distance and at the free-throw line, along with his defense, to do so.
Quotable: “Trent tonight didn’t get a lot of time. He came in and made two free throws at a big, big, big time. It says a lot about him. You know, he’s all about the team. He’s all about winning.” – Darian DeVries following Indiana’s win against Purdue.
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