Monroe opted to leave the team after the season, foregoing his junior and senior years of college to enter the 2010 National Basketball Association draft; the Detroit Pistons selected him. He left Georgetown having started all 65 games of his collegiate career, shooting 54.3 percent from the field and averaging 14.5 points and 8.2 rebounds per game. After a first year in which he had scored only in the Lafayette game and taken only one shot and played only four minutes during the remainder of the season, reserve guard Stephan Stepka also left, transferring to James Madison. although he did not play there. They were the ninth and tenth Hoyas in five seasons to leave Georgetown prior to the expiration of their college eligibility.