With the April 11 addition of four-star ( ESPN) combo guard Serrel Smith from Florida's St. Petersburg High School, the Maryland men's basketball team's incoming 2018 recruiting class is now ranked as the seventh-best in the country by 247Sports.com.
Smith joins center Jalen Smith (Mount St. Joseph) and guards Eric Ayala and Aaron Wiggins in the class, which now faces lofty expectations at a school that has advanced past the first round of the NCAA Tournament just once in seven years under head coach Mark Turgeon.
So how is Serrel Smith handling such high expectations? By simultaneously denying they exist and also somehow raising them.
