Last summer at this time, Emmitt Holt was playing with the Albany City Rocks on the AAU circuit. In Bloomington, Indiana prepared for its five-game tour of Montreal that was still a few weeks away.
Holt committed to doing a postgraduate season at Vermont Academy, but that changed after the Hoosier staff learned he was open to enrolling as a class of 2015 recruit. He ultimately visited campus in late August and joined the program for the 2014-2015 season.
The later than usual enrollment put Holt behind his incoming peers like James Blackmon Jr. and Robert Johnson, who arrived on campus in early June, took summer school and competed in Montreal.