Former Maryland men’s basketball head coach Mark Turgeon started off his collegiate basketball career as a player at the University of Kansas and after graduating from the university, started getting acclimated to coaching.
Out of college, Turgeon worked as an assistant to Larry Brown, his former coach and was part of the team that current interim head coach Danny Manning led to a National Championship in 1988.
He spent time at Kansas until 1992 when he moved to the University of Oregon to become an assistant there. After a few years there, Turgeon went to the NBA for one year to work as an assistant for Brown who was with the Philadelphia 76ers.