Indiana Basketball Player Report Card: Kanaan Carlyle
The thought for all of Indiana’s guards – both the ones they retained and the transfers they brought in – was that the rising tide would lift all boats. With three guards on the floor in conjunction with Mackenzie Mgbako or Malik Reneau and Oumar Ballo, someone would be open.
Less-than-stellar 3-point shooting from both Carlyle and Myles Rice were sloughed off. Both would be better, conventional wisdom dictated, when placed on a team full of talent and where they didn’t have to carry their squad.
team or whether it was due to injury or lack of confidence, we don’t know. What we do know is that Carlyle fell short of expectation. He never got into gear and there were only passing glimpses of the player Indiana thought it was getting from Stanford.
The right coach can likely get something out of Carlyle, but Mike Woodson wasn’t that coach, and the disappointing season Indiana had never gave Carlyle a chance to have any run of success.
It was a disappointing season. If Carlyle stays with the Hoosiers, Darian DeVries will need to have a good plan in place to get something out of the guard, but 2024-25 was a lost season for Carlyle with the Hoosiers.
Grade: D.
