Both Indiana’s and Maryland’s men’s basketball programs entered Saturday’s game with different head coaches from the previous season. Indiana did so by choice, but Maryland’s was due to circumstance.
The Hoosiers never made the NCAA Tournament under Archie Miller, and the Terrapins never made it too far once they got in with Mark Turgeon.
Each team’s replacement came with an NBA background. Indiana’s Mike Woodson as a player and coach and Maryland’s Danny Manning as a player. The two boast identical career scoring averages of 14 points per game.
They’d crossed paths in the NBA before, but they met for the first time as coaches in Indiana’s 68-55 win Saturday in College Park, Maryland.