Diggy Coit explains transfer, explains why 2025-26 Maryland basketball team is "probably the best team I've been around"

Ahmed Ghafir
Aug 7
3 min read

David Coit arrived in College Park this summer set to close out his college career with Maryland basketball, providing a reunion of sorts for the former Northern Illinois and Kansas guard. Coit, a 5-foot-11 point guard originally from New Jersey, became one of the first non-Aggie transfers to join the program after nearly suiting up for head coach Buzz Williams the season prior.

“My eligibility was messed up and God willing, it happened the way it was supposed to. My eligibility was messed up – the eligibility center, I had something was going on with compliance at NIU, somebody made a mistake, I may have made a mistake when I was registering different things,” Coit said. “I had to get an attorney, fight for my year back because they said it was expired. Fight for my year back, got my year back, committed to coach Buzz at [Texas] A&M and [Roccaforte] and the rest of the staff, committed. Couldn’t get me in school because obviously I waited a whole summer because I needed a waiver to play. By time I got eligible to play, they couldn’t get me in school. Transferring, you lose credits and different things like that. God willing how he designed it, coach Roc, obviously I’m here for a reason. One of the things that I felt like was a main thing for me is because I could trust coach Roc before I even met coach Buzz, before I even met the rest of the staff. I’m like this is the assistant coach who was crazy, this my guy. He didn’t lie to me, told me the truth from the start.”

“He makes a call to coach [Joe] Dooley at Kansas and says we have a kid we couldn’t get into our school. I think he’d be great for you. They took a look at me. Kansas already recruited me before this waiver thing happened but it just didn’t work out. Call end of the summer, coach Bill Self had called me, worked out and was like ‘feel like we could use you.’”

Coit went on to start in three games and appear in 34 for the Jayhawks in 2024-25, averaging 5.1 points and 1.3 assists in roughly 16 minutes per game during his lone season in Lawrence. But he now heads to College Park where he’s expected to play a major role in the backcourt after drawing buzz through the offseason as a veteran presence as a primary ball handler. Now settled in College Park, Coit took quick notice of his new teammates ahead of his final season of college basketball.

“This probably the best team I've been around not only just skill, of course. I was on a highly skilled Kansas team and that was the best team I’ve ever been around skill wise. But when it comes to character, teammates, competitiveness, communication, best team for sure. I've never been a part of that. I just think that's just in the guys that we have. I think the staff did a great job recruiting us and I think with those things, I think that on and off the court, we’re going to have a great relationship with the community because we’re not going to be a team who doesn’t put it all out there. We’re not going to half step – and Buzz isn’t going to allow us to. I think that’s going to be the main thing. We’re not going to half step, be frontrunners. We're going to take our wins like we take our losses but we're going to bring it every time, for sure."

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