BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – It is a essential recruiting weekend for Indiana. Not simply due to the expertise it is internet hosting, but in addition for the amount of official visits scheduled.
Coach Mike Woodson and the Indiana males’s basketball workers welcome three of their prime recruiting targets within the class of 2025 this weekend – Braylon Mullins, Eric Reibe and Trent Sisley – in accordance with a number of reviews.
Indiana doesn’t at the moment have any commitments within the class of 2025, although nearly all of recruits stay undecided. Indiana lately hosted official visits with Jalen Haralson and Mikel Brown Jr., each of whom are thought of five-star guards by the On3 Industry Rankings.
Highschool and switch portal recruiting will probably be particularly necessary for Indiana because it builds a roster for the 2025-26 season. Indiana at the moment has has six seniors on its 2024-25 roster, although Luke Goode mentioned on a Hoosiers Connect podcast that he could get an additional 12 months of eligibility for the 2025-26 season resulting from his harm historical past at Illinois.
However even when Goode spends the following two seasons with the Hoosiers, Woodson may have not less than 5 roster spots to fill for 2025-26 based mostly on departing seniors alone. That quantity might develop even larger if gamers depart Indiana by means of switch portal.
Woodson used the switch portal extra closely than highschool recruiting to assemble his 2024-25 roster, however he and the Indiana workers have been in robust pursuit of sophistication of 2025 prospects. That continues this weekend with Mullins, Reibe and Sisley.
Mullins is a consensus top-35 recruit, considering rankings from On3, 247Sports, Rivals and ESPN. The 6-foot-5 guard is ranked highest by 247Sports, which tabs him as a five-star recruit and the No. 16 participant within the nation.
Mullins is in his senior 12 months at Greenfield-Central Excessive College in Greenfield, Ind., an jap suburb of Indianapolis. All recruiting websites take into account him the No. 2 or No. 3 participant from Indiana in his class, making him a contender for 2025 Indiana Mr. Basketball.
Taking part in for the Indiana Elite AAU staff, Mullins was 11 gamers nationwide named to the adidas 3SSB Spring All-Circuit first staff. With a 13-0 report, Mullins averaged 19.5 factors, 3.7 rebounds, 2.6 assists and 1.7 steals per recreation whereas capturing 50.8% from the sector. He is broadly thought of one of many prime 3-point shooters within the class of 2025.
Adam Zagoria reported that Mullins is anticipated to announce a top-five listing after his Indiana go to. His top-10 faculties beforehand included Alabama, Duke, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, North Carolina, Purdue, Tennessee and UConn. To date, he has taken official visits to UConn, Michigan and North Carolina.
Reibe is a 7-foot middle from The Bullis College in Potomac, Md., close to Washington, D.C. He is a consensus four-star recruit, ranked as excessive as No. 23 within the nation by ESPN, which tabs Reibe because the No. 2 middle and No. 1 participant in Maryland amongst class of 2025 prospects.
On the NBPA Prime 100 Camp in Orlando in June, Reibe averaged 19.7 factors, 6.6 rebounds, and 1.7 assists per recreation. Initially from Germany, he additionally has expertise enjoying abroad in skilled leagues and for the Germany U18 staff.
Reibe visited UConn and Kansas in September, and Indiana is one in all six faculties he plans to formally go to, in accordance with On3’s Joe Tipton.
“At 7 ft tall, Eric Reibe is an especially expert large man with mobility and contact each in and out,”ESPN’s Paul Biancardi said of Reibe. “His basketball IQ is excessive, and his rebounding is constant. Gained’t discover any extra expert at his measurement.”
Sisley is a 6-foot-7 ahead from Montverde Academy, close to Orlando., Fla. He is a four-star recruit ranked No. 78 within the nation, in accordance with the On3 Industry Rankings.
He spent the primary three years of highschool at Heritage Hills Excessive College in Lincoln Metropolis, Ind., earlier than transferring to Montverde for his senior season. Former Hoosier Jalen Hood-Schifino and present Indiana energy ahead Malik Reneau attended Montverde. Indiana beforehand had a dedication from Monteverde’s Liam McNeeley, although he decommitted and is now at UConn.
As a junior, Sisley averaged 24.2 factors, 11.4 rebounds, 4.3 assists, 2.2 blocks and 1.8 steals per recreation, in accordance with MaxPreps. Able to scoring in and out, Sisley has shot 61% from the sector and 38% from 3-point vary (80-for-211) throughout three highschool seasons.
In June, Sisley narrowed his listing to 5 faculties – Iowa, Indiana, Notre Dame, Michigan State and Purdue – as first reported by Joe Tipton. He took an official go to to Iowa final 12 months and visited Purdue final weekend. After Indiana, he has visits scheduled to Notre Dame and Michigan State.
“Sisley is a flexible ahead with a well-rounded two-way recreation,” Adam Finkelstein of 247Sports wrote in his scouting report. “He is a combo ahead of kinds, able to enjoying and defending a number of positions. He has sufficient measurement to play the 4, deceptively lengthy arms, and a little bit of underrated athleticism to offer him some bounce on the rim. He is bodily and hard sufficient to battle larger guys inside and on the glass. Whereas Sisley would not possess elite lateral quickness, he has good defensive instincts and actually works to protect the perimeter. Sisley’s capturing has lengthy been thought of one in all his greatest attributes (43% 3pt in 3SSB).”
