Drew Adams - Men's Basketball Coach - Indiana University Athletics

Drew Adams

Title:
Assistant Coach

Drew Adams was named Assistant Coach for the Hoosiers on May 28, 2025. He brings over a decade of Division I coaching experience with stops in the Mountain West, Missouri Valley, and Big XII conferences.

AT INDIANA
In his debut season at Indiana the Hoosiers finished 18-14 and 9-11 in Big Ten Conference play. IU played the nation’s 36th-hardest schedule with 14 games against opponents that made the NCAA Tournament. The Hoosiers earned marquee wins over No. 12 Purdue (Jan. 27), at UCLA (Jan. 31), and against Wisconsin (Feb. 7).

Adams helped senior guard Lamar Wilkerson garner All-Big Ten Second Team and All-Great Lakes District First Team accolades. Wilkerson averaged 20.9 points per game, the most by a Hoosier guard since Eric Gordon (2007-08), and upped his average to 23.2 points per B1G game, the most since George McGinnis (1970-71). He established program records for total points scored in Big Ten play (464), made 3-pointers in league play (70), made 3-pointers in a single game (10), and a Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall record for single-game scoring (44). Wilkerson became the second Hoosier in program history (Steve Alford, 1986-87) to make 100 3-pointers in a single season. Senior big man Sam Alexis set the school record for field goal percentage (68.7%) with a minimum of 100 made shots.

BEFORE BLOOMINGTON
Adams was an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for head coach Wes Miller for two seasons at Cincinnati. During his time with the Bearcats, the program won 41 games and made a pair of postseason tournaments.

Before his Big XII stop, Adams spent seven seasons (2015-22) as an assistant coach at Bradley. He helped the Braves to a complete rebuild that resulted in consecutive Missouri Valley Conference Championships for the first time in school history.

Adams earned Top 50 Most Impactful Mid Major Assistants distinction from Silver Waves Media in both 2020 and 2022 and was also named one of the top five assistant coaches in the Missouri Valley Conference in 2020.

Adams played an important role in reestablishing Bradley to the peak of the Missouri Valley. He helped turn the nation's youngest team with just five wins in 2015-16 into conference champions and an appearance in the NCAA Tournament just three years later in 2018-19 – Bradley's first MVC Tournament title since 1988. BU then repeated as conference champions in 2020, marking the first time since 1954 and 1955 the Braves qualified for the NCAA Tournament in back-to-back seasons. He coached 10 all-conference players and seven MVC All-Freshman recipients.

Adams joined Bradley after four seasons at New Mexico, where he helped the Lobos to a 99-36 (.733) overall record, including a 45-21 (.682) tally in the Mountain West Conference. During his tenure in New Mexico, Adams helped the program to two regular-season league titles, three Mountain West postseason tournament crowns, and three top 7 seeds in the NCAA Tournament.

He initially joined the staff in 2011-12 as Director of Operations for Steve Alford, was promoted to assistant coach for the 2012-13 season, and remained on Craig Neal's staff his final two seasons.

Adams, who played for Alford during the 2006-07 season at Iowa, began his coaching career as a student assistant at Tennessee, helping the Volunteers to consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances and the program's first No. 1 national ranking during the 2007-08 season. After graduating from Tennessee in 2009, Adams spent two years on Tom Crean's staff at Indiana, first as Coordinator of Basketball Systems in 2009-10 before being promoted to Director of Operations for the 2010-11 season. He also has coached on the AAU level for the Indiana Elite program.

Adams began his collegiate playing career at Florida Community College of Jacksonville where he was team captain as a sophomore in 2005-06 before transferring to Iowa.

A 2004 graduate of Bloomington High School South, Adams spent three years playing for head coach J.R. Holmes. During his senior season at South, the Panthers won Conference Indiana, and he was selected as team captain, was the team's leading scorer, and was an all-conference selection.

He earned his bachelor's degree in sports management from Tennessee in 2009. Adams and his wife, Brooke, have three daughters, Quinn, Ava and Sloane, and one son, Nolan.