Diamond Stone committed to Maryland’s basketball program a bit late in the recruiting year, on March 27, 2015. He was Maryland’s highest-rated recruit in recent memory, a consensus top-10 player and either the best or second best center in the 2015 class, depending on which analyst you asked. He gave the Terps legitimate national title hopes and helped raise expectations to a new place for Mark Turgeon’s team.
What actually happened didn’t quite reach lofty expectations. But Stone still had a solid lone year in college before declaring for the NBA Draft, which is on Thursday night in New York.