Eight days after entering the transfer portal, former Indiana men’s basketball guard Gabe Cupps is headed to Ohio State, he announced on social media Wednesday.
The 6-foot-2, 180-pound Cupps is the first Hoosier to commit to a different school since Indiana’s season ended March 16.
When Cupps initially declared his intention to hit the portal March 18, he left the door open for a return to Indiana. Instead, the Dayton, Ohio, native is headed closer to home after two seasons in Bloomington.
Cupps played in 37 games as a Hoosier, averaging 2.3 points, 1.2 assists and 1.6 rebounds per game. He played in only four games this season before undergoing surgery in December on what Indiana Athletics described as “a nagging and preexisting lower body injury,” though Cupps later said it was a torn meniscus. He did not return to the court during the 2024-25 season.
A consensus four-star recruit in the 2023 class out of Centerville High School, Cupps started 22 of 33 games as a freshman in 2023-24. That season, he averaged 2.6 points, 1.2 assists and 1.8 rebounds across 21.7 minutes per game.
In 2024-25, Cupps did not score across 24 minutes in four appearances. He dished three assists and grabbed one rebound while going 0-for-4 shooting from the field.
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