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Jerod Morris and Ryan Phillips discuss Indiana basketball's offseason developments, including roster changes and the impact of Sam Alexis' return.

In this episode of The Assembly Call , Jerod Morris and Ryan Phillips take stock of where Indiana basketball stands in mid-August after the Peru trip, Sam Alexis’ return, and the first real glimpses of this rebuilt roster. They dig into the reasons for cautious optimism, what this team’s identity could eventually become, and which questions still need to be answered before the games start counting. Why Sam Alexis’ return may matter more than a typical late-offseason roster addition—and what it changes about Indiana’s frontcourt options. What Bart Torvik’s early projections say about Indiana and a Big Ten that already looks brutally deep. The biggest lesson from Peru wasn’t any individual stat line, but what the roster suggested about how these pieces might fit together. What could define Indiana’s identity on both ends of the floor—and why this roster may offer Darren DeVries more ways to attack than he had a year ago. Which freshmen have raised expectations, which veterans may be getting overlooked, and how much we should really trust anything we see in August. A closer look at whether Indiana’s supposed depth is actually different this time—and why developing the back end of…

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