Maryland men’s basketball coach Mark Turgeon recruited Kevin Huerter and Bruno Fernando because he thought they could one day play in the NBA, so it was only appropriate that as the Terps underclassmen moved to the brink of the leap, working out at last month’s draft combine in Chicago, he joined them there.
Huerter, the less heralded of the Terps’ then-undecided early-entry candidates — classmate Justin Jackson had already signed with an agent — impressed as a shooter, passer and athlete. Fernando, then considered a possible first-round pick, was tall (measuring in at nearly 6 feet 10 in shoes), jumped high (nearly 2 1/2 feet) and shot well in drills.