Three-and-a-half weeks into the 2021-22 college basketball season, the coaching carousel officially began to turn on Friday, as Maryland announced head coach Mark Turgeon was stepping down.
While college football has owned headlines all fall for its string of midseason coaching changes -- not the least of which came earlier this week when Brian Kelly left Notre Dame for LSU before a possible playoff appearance -- the trend has now carried over to the hardwood. It's not often big programs make coaching changes this early in the season, barring off-court or NCAA issues. UCLA did it with Steve Alford on New Year's Eve a few years ago and Andy Kennedy resigned from Ole Miss in February 2018, but such circumstances have been few and far between.