From 2004 to 2006, John Thompson III was able to build the pieces of a Final Four contender. The final piece in this puzzle was 6-8 Dajuan Summers, a big and versatile wing forward from Baltimore that quickly elevated Georgetown to the national elite.

Summers selected Georgetown over Maryland in 2006, coming off a high school season where he averaged 29 points and 11 rebounds, and was named the state player of the year and appeared in the Jordan Brand All-America Game. It took just three games for Summers to join the starting lineup, replacing Marc Egerson and scoring 17 points in a 2006 win over Fairfield. Summers was named to the 2007 All Big East Rookie team, averaging 9.2 points a game with a 41.2 percent mark from three point range. He led the team in scoring in five games, but was most effective in the post-season, including an 18 point effort in the 2007 Big East semifinal versus Notre Dame and a 20 point, six rebound effort against North Carolina in the NCAA eastern regional final.

"It was just a good team effort, like everybody just stuck together," said Summers in the Hoyas first trip to the Final Four in 22 years. "We knew starting overtime that if we stuck together and continued to do the things we were doing, it would look up for us. We got some tough stops. I made some good offensive plays and stuff with our offense. Things just worked out for us."

Summers was the second leading scorer behind Roy Hibbert in 2007-08, with 20 games in double figures to help lead Georgetown to back to back Big East regular season titles for the first time ever. Summers posted a career high 14 rebounds in an early March win over Marquette, and followed it up with a game winning three to lead the Hoyas over Louisville in the regular season finale, earning the sophomore the first of two issues where he would be on the cover of Sports Illustrated.

With the graduation of Roy Hibbert, Summers was expected to take the reins of the 2008-09 Hoyas, but amidst the rising play of Austin Freeman, Chris Wright and Greg Monroe, he did not carry the Hoyas back to thee heights of his first two years. The review of Summers at NBA Draft.net was telling: "[he] has not yet proven that he has the killer instinct to take over a game." Summers led the team in scoring overall but his numbers sagged as Georgetown lose seven of eight midway through the season, and he led the team in scoring in just two of the last 11 games of the season. Despite protestations to the contrary, by season's end Summers had the look of a player wanting to go elsewhere, and left the program 11 days after a first round NIT loss at Baylor.

Following Georgetown, Summers was a second round draft pick of the NBA's Detroit Pistons, averaging 3.2 points per game in 66 games over two seasons. He signed two 10-day contracts in the 2011-12 and 2012-23 season with Nw Orleans and the Los Angeles Clippers, respectively, and moved on to continue his career in Europe.

Like a number of Georgetown players that leave a year early, Summers lost the opportunity to establish himself nationally as the kind of forward at the top of the draft order. His impact at Georgetown was notable, but it was not enough in the competitive NBA environment.