TERPS

Terps Men's Basketball

Now that the Maryland Terrapins football season is winding down and the weather is starting to turn colder it is time to move inside to the Comcast Center.  The Mark Turgeon era officially got underway on Sunday night, November 13^th against UNC–Wilmington.  Maryland would prevail in Turgeon’s Terrapins head coaching debut 71-62.  Turgeon comes to College Park after spending the past four seasons as the head coach of the Texas A & M Aggies where his record was 97–40.  He was also named the Big 12 Coach of the Year in both 2010 and 2011.  However, taking over for Gary Williams who both played and spent the past twenty two years at the University of Maryland as the head honcho isn’t going to be easy.  Making matters worse for Turgeon is the fact that he only has eight scholarship and six walk-on players at his disposal for this season.  Things didn’t start well when projected sophomore starter Pe’Shon Howard suffered a foot injury and is expected to be out approximately the first ten to twelve weeks of the 2011–2012 campaign.  The team did get some good news when 7’1” Ukrainian center Alex Len was declared eligible by the NCAA.  However, he will be suspended for the first ten games of the regular season.  Some schedule highlights include the San Juan, Puerto Rico Shoot–Out, a home game against the University of Illinois in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge, and home and home games against both Duke University and the University of North Carolina.             

by Kris L.