Indiana’s 2025-26 roster will be built this spring by new coach Darian DeVries, who will navigate the transfer portal to assemble his first team in Bloomington.
Inside the Hall will examine some of the prospects linked to the Hoosiers this spring. Today: Xavier guard Ryan Conwell.
Numbers to know
104 career games at South Florida, Indiana State and Xavier: 13 points, 2.4 assists, 3.6 rebounds and 1.1 steals in 28.8 minutes per game. Conwell is a career 39.3 percent 3-point shooter, 83.8 percent free throw shooter and shoots at a 44.7 percent clip from the field. He started 21 games at South Florida and started in all 38 and 34 contests at Indiana State and Xavier, respectively.
Background and potential fit
Indianapolis native Ryan Conwell enters his second straight offseason linked to Indiana in the transfer portal.
Despite being the 2022 Marion County Player of the Year at Pike High School, Conwell received mainly low and mid-major offers and committed to South Florida in September 2021. In his lone season with the Bulls, he started 21 of 32 games and played 18.4 minutes per game.
However, his averages were low: 5.1 points, 1.9 rebounds, and assists per game on 34 percent shooting from the floor and 30 percent from 3-point range. South Florida went 14-18 and its coach was fired at the season’s end.
After receiving interest from DePaul, Bradley, Loyola-Chicago, Richmond, and Virginia, Conwell transferred to Josh Schertz and Indiana State, which had recruited him heavily out of high school.
The 6-foot-4 guard blossomed in Terre Haute. In 33.9 minutes per game, he averaged 16.6 points, 5.8 rebounds and 2.5 assists per game. He shot 48.2 percent from the floor and 40.7 percent from deep on 7.1 attempts per game.
Conwell and the Sycamores – who finished the season 32-7 – faced off against Darian DeVries’ Drake squad three times, including in the Missouri Valley Conference tournament championship game. Conwell averaged 17 points, 6.3 rebounds and 2.3 assists in those matchups, going 1-2.
Schertz left his post to take the Saint Louis coaching job, and days later, Conwell entered the portal for the second straight year and committed to Xavier.
Despite a higher level of competition in the Big East, Conwell’s production from Indiana State carried over.
Starting in all 34 games, Conwell produced 16.5 points, 2.7 rebounds and 2.5 assists in 33 minutes per game. He shot 45 percent from the field and connected on 3-pointers at a 41.3 percent rate on 7.1 attempts per game.
He ended the season on a tear, scoring 20-plus points in Xavier’s last five games – including a 38-point performance against Marquette in the Big East tournament – helping the Musketeers squeak into the First Four of the NCAA tournament.
Conwell announced on March 28 that he was entering the transfer portal for the third time in three seasons. The news broke days after Sean Miller took the Texas job.
One of the top guards currently in the transfer portal, Conwell is reportedly set to visit Indiana this week.
Conwell’s archetype is the kind of player IU has failed to find or produce in recent years – a sharpshooting, go-to scoring guard. His offensive firepower and experience as a proven scorer make him a desirable target for DeVries to bring in.
DeVries expressed a desire to add multiple shooters to the roster and picking up Conwell would do just that.
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