The 2016 NBA Draft June 23 was, without question, a very bad night for Maryland basketball.
In the coming days, the marketing department at the University of Maryland will handle the task of trying to promote the value of having two Terrapins players being drafted. It will discuss how Diamond Stone and Jake Layman were the 56th and 57th players in school history to be selected. It will mention how Maryland has now had three players drafted under head coach Mark Turgeon's watch (Alex Len the first in 2013). It will wisely talk up how while Robert Carter Jr. wasn't actually drafted, he quickly found an NBA home with the mighty Golden State Warriors. It will do everything in its power to spin the results into good news.
The marketing department probably won't mention anything about how Stone was a projected lottery pick before he arrived in College Park, Md. There probably won't be anything sent out by the school about how the big man may well have been a top 10 pick had he been able to enter the draft out of high school but instead fell an entire round to No. 40.
