Maryland Coach Mark Turgeon could not see this coming eight months ago, when he was scrambling to assimilate his freshman class and mining the graduate transfer wire after losing four starters to the professional ranks. In May, Turgeon might have laughed if you told him his team would be 18-2 and in a tie for first place in the Big Ten by late January. But there he was Tuesday night, trying to make sense of his team’s lackluster 67-55 win over Rutgers, a performance that underscored both how far Maryland has come and how far it still has to go.
Maryland basketball is off to its best start in 18 years
