Former WVU Basketball Guard Shares Major Revelation About Tucker DeVries' Injury

Current Indiana head basketball coach Darian DeVries and his son Tucker DeVries spent the 2024-25 season in Morgantown with the WVU men's basketball program. The talented father-son duo were previously at Drake University, where Tucker was a two-time Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year. 

In one year with the Mountaineers, Darian DeVries put together quite the season, led by current Memphis Grizzlies' guard Javon Small, as WVU fell just short of an NCAA Tournament berth – one many thought they should have earned. But Tucker’s 2024-25 season was limited to just eight games after he suffered a season-ending injury to his shoulder, one that had been surgically repaired in the previous offseason. It wasn’t long after the season ended that both Coach DeVries and his son were off to become Indiana Hoosiers after the program parted ways with former head coach Mike Woodson.

After the DeVries family departed for Indiana, many WVU fans began speculating regarding the severity of Tucker DeVries’ seemingly “mysterious” injury and how it saved him another season to play for Indiana. Throughout the season, neither Tucker nor his father shed much light on it. Our purpose here is not to speculate, and we will not claim a fake injury to a player who missed significant time. However, additional information regarding this situation has now come out.

Sencire Harris, a teammate of Tucker DeVries at WVU last year and a critical piece of the rotation for the Mountaineers, is now at Cincinnati to continue his collegiate career. On October 9, he was streaming on Instagram live when asked whether or not DeVries was truly injured. You can find the video below.

There it is: the question? Was Tucker DeVries actually hurt? Harris' response was plain, short, and sweet.

“No, he was not hurt," Harris said.

Once again, it's not our place to speculate as to whether or not DeVries was hurt, or to read more into it than is necessary. But this is a former teammate who was in that locker room claiming that Tucker was not hurt while at WVU, indicating that WVU fans may not be fully wrong is assuming his injury was exaggerated. 

There is apparently no love lost between Sencire Harris and Tucker DeVries. The two no longer follow each other on Instagram. Javon Small, currently with the Memphis Grizzlies, is also not following Tucker on Instagram or X. While you can do with information what you wish, and social media certainly does not tell the full tale, fans of West Virginia aren’t the only people associated with the Mountaineers who were hurt by Coach DeVries and his son’s decisions to move on to Indiana.

Undoubtedly, it is water under the bridge at this point, as we were in mid-October, months removed from DeVries exiting, and West Virginia is weeks away from beginning a new era of Mountaineer basketball under first-year head coach Ross Hodge.