Darian DeVries was named Indiana basketball's 31st head coach back in March, but his road to Assembly Hall started when he was a kid shooting hoops outside his childhood home in Aplington, Iowa.

The way the Aplington community supported DeVries' high school teams as the team won 75-straight games (and a pair of state titles) mirrored the movie "Hoosiers."

Indiana basketball's new coach immediately fell in love with the profession in his early days as a graduate manager for Dana Altman at Creighton.

As Indiana basketball’s season gets underway on Wednesday with its season-opener against Alabama A&M, The Herald-Times is rolling out a weekly three-part series on new coach Darian DeVries that chronicles his career. In Part 1, writer Michael Niziolek traces DeVries' passion for basketball th

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