LOUISVILLE, Ky.
Mark Turgeon was 5-foot-6 and 120 pounds as a senior at Topeka Hayden, where he managed to cobble together an outstanding high school basketball career despite blowing over when somebody opened the doors to the gym.
Surely, though, that’s where the basketball thing would end. There was an outside chance that Turgeon could play at the Division II level. Junior college, maybe?
Instead, he convinced Larry Brown to give him a chance at Kansas, became a point guard and helped KU to four NCAA Tournaments and the 1986 Final Four in his junior season.