The start of 2009 was not shaping up to be a banner year for Michigan basketball.
Ten seasons had passed since the Wolverines had made the NCAA Tournament and John Beilein's first recruiting class at Michigan had ranked 12th out of 14 Big Ten teams.
And the chances that a three-star guard from Carmel, Indiana, would help turn around the program? Unlikely.
But Stuart Douglass did just that.
Michigan reached the NCAA Tournament his freshman season, in 2009, and would do so twice more during his career. Michigan grabbed a share of the Big Ten regular season championship his senior year.