Vincennes guard set to sign with IU

On Nov. 18, 2006, freshman Devan Dumes scored 16 points on 6-of-12 shooting from the floor – in just 18 minutes. Despite the 16-point effort, Dumes and his Eastern Michigan teammates fell to Tom Crean’s Marquette squad, 95-62.\nSeventeen months and one day later, Crean, now the head coach at IU, welcomed the current Vincennes University sophomore to campus on Saturday for an unofficial visit. \nDumes liked what he saw and he verbally committed to play for IU next year. On Tuesday at 7:00 p.m., the 6-foot-2 guard will sign his letter of intent at the Wheeler-Dowe Boys and Girls Club in Indianapolis. \n“We set up a visit and got down there and made magic happen,” Dumes said in an interview Sunday. \nJoining a recruiting class that features high school seniors Tom Pritchard and Matt Roth, the combo guard will have two years of eligibility remaining after spending a year each at Eastern Michigan and Vincennes. \nDuring his freshman year at Eastern Michigan, the Indianapolis \nDecatur Central product scored 8.1 points per game and shot nearly 34 percent from behind the 3-point line. This season at Vincennes, Dumes led his team in scoring, averaging 16.9 points per game, while his 40-percent 3-point shooting paced him along the way to setting a single-season school record of 109 3-point shots made.\nAlison Evans, Dumes’ mother, said her son planned on visiting other schools, but opted not to take any more visits. Dumes considered Ohio State, Colorado, South Alabama and UTEP.\n“It was definitely a dream (for him to come to IU) and he’s very excited,” Evans said.\nDumes, who calls himself “a well-rounded player,” is the first Vincennes Blazer to transfer to IU in more than 20 years. As of now, he will be one of just eight scholarship players on the 2008-09 roster. The NCAA allows a maximum of 13 scholarships to be awarded, although the Hoosiers lost one because of self-imposed sanctions in the midst of the Kelvin Sampson saga.