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NCAA Basketball: Retrospective look at 2011 offseason coaching hires

By Joey Loose

COLLEGE PARK, MD - JANUARY 11: (L to R) Head coachs Mark Turgeon of the Maryland Terrapins and Archie Miller of the Indiana Hoosiers shake hands before a college basketball game at the XFinity Center on January 11, 2019 in College Park, Maryland. (Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images)
COLLEGE PARK, MD - JANUARY 11: (L to R) Head coachs Mark Turgeon of the Maryland Terrapins and Archie Miller of the Indiana Hoosiers shake hands before a college basketball game at the XFinity Center on January 11, 2019 in College Park, Maryland. (Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images) /
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NCAA Basketball Mark Turgeon Maryland Terrapins (Photo by Sarah Stier/Getty Images)
NCAA Basketball Mark Turgeon Maryland Terrapins (Photo by Sarah Stier/Getty Images) /

6. Mark Turgeon (Maryland)

Maryland basketball was in fantastic shape thanks to Gary Williams. Across more than two decades leading the Terrapins, he led the program to their first national title in 2002 and established Maryland as one of the ACC’s better programs. When he retired, the Terrapins were thrown into the first coaching search in quite a while, landing on an interesting name to take the reins.

Mark Turgeon’s career had already been full of experience. He won a national title at Kansas in his first assistant coaching job. He spent time as an assistant in the NBA before beginning his head coaching career at Jacksonville State. As a head coach, he led Wichita State to the Sweet Sixteen and made four NCAA Tournaments in four years at Texas A&M, his final stop before landing at Maryland.

After a sparse beginning, Turgeon lead Maryland into the Big Ten in 2014 and they’ve adjusted quite well to the new challenge. He’s led the Terrapins to five NCAA Tournaments, including a Sweet Sixteen, and tied for the regular-season title back in 2020. Maryland has yet to have that deep postseason run under Turgeon; that’s the one big things he’s missing in taking this program to the next level.

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