Darren Harris is in the transfer portal, and Indiana has a clear reason to watch. The Duke guard is tied to IU assistant Kenny Johnson, whose connection to Team Takeover gives the Hoosiers an immediate link to the 6-foot-5 shooter from Herndon, Va.
Harris, who played his travel basketball for Team Takeover on the Nike EYBL circuit, spent his first two college seasons at Duke while working largely as a reserve. As a sophomore in 2025-26, he appeared in 36 games and came off the bench in all of them, averaging 3.3 points, 0.8 rebounds and 0.4 assists in 9.6 minutes a night while shooting 36.3% overall and 33.3% from 3-point range on 69 attempts. He also made 76.9% of his free throws.
That production matters because Harris did not arrive as an unknown. He was a four-star prospect out of St. Paul VI H.S., ranked No. 45 nationally by and No. 56 by 247Sports, and he won 2023-24 Gatorade Virginia Player of the Year after averaging 17.2 points, 4.5 rebounds, 3.1 assists and 1.9 steals per game. His college profile has been built around perimeter shooting, with 68.9% of his attempts coming from beyond the arc.
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The numbers show real progress, which is why he is on the radar now. Harris shot 22.7% from long range as a freshman in 2024-25, then improved to 33.3% as a sophomore while raising his free throw rate from 50% to 76.9%. He still has two years of eligibility remaining, and that gives the portal a player with size, pedigree and room to keep growing.
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The timing is the other part of the story. The transfer portal formally opens April 7, and players with a clean statistical trend and a built-in recruiting connection tend to move quickly once it does. For Indiana, Harris is not just another name — he is a guard whose path runs through Johnson and Team Takeover, the kind of tie that can turn early interest into a real pursuit.
