The first hint that Markelle Fultz might be a different kind of one-and-done prospect came last February, when the Washington Huskies hosted the 23rd-ranked Arizona Wildcats before, at that time, the largest crowd to watch a game at Hec Edmundson Pavilion in four years.
Fultz, a five-star, all-everything guard who prepped at DeMatha Catholic High School in Maryland, had long ago decided to play for the Huskies. He committed to UW the previous August, then signed a binding national letter of intent a little more than two months later. He shut his recruitment down thereafter.
So there was nothing more for Fultz to see when he boarded an airplane, by himself, to attend that game against Arizona.