Mark Turgeon and Eddie Jordan have taken similar paths in their respective careers.
As college players, each was the starting point guard on a team that lost in the NCAA semifinals -- Turgeon and Kansas to Duke in 1986, Jordan on an unbeaten Rutgers team to Michigan a decade earlier.
Coming into the Big Ten Conference together last season, Turgeon’s Maryland team and Jordan’s team at Rutgers were both picked to finish near or at the bottom of the league.
While the Terps were one of the biggest surprises in the league and the country by finishing second behind Wisconsin in the Big Ten with a 14-4 record, the Scarlet Knights came in last, beating the Badgers but winning only one other game.