Mark Turgeon
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Mark Turgeon (born in Topeka, Kansas) is the head basketball coach of Wichita State University. As a college basketball player at the University of Kansas, Turgeon was known as a smart "coach on the floor" leader. That experience helped to groom him for his career as a head coach.
[edit] College career
In college at the University of Kansas, Turgeon was a reserve point guard on the 1986 Jayhawks team that went 35-4 and made it to the Final Four. A year after his graduation, he was an assistant coach on Larry Brown's staff for the 1988 National Championship team dubbed "Danny and the Miracles" due to the leadership of National Player of the Year Danny Manning. Turgeon remained on the Kansas staff when Roy Williams took over in 1989, coaching the junior varsity team.
While at Kansas, Turgeon became the first player in Jayhawk history to ever play in four consecutive NCAA Tournaments. He was twice selected as team captain (1986 and 1987), was a Big Eight all-Academic performer (1986), a member of the 1986 team that made it to the Final Four and won the Big Eight Conference regular season and tournament championships, and was selected to the 1984 Big Eight all-Freshman team. During his career, Kansas posted a record of 108-33.
[edit] Coaching career
Turgeon was later an assistant coach at University of Oregon and later the University of Tennessee, under former Kansas assistant Jerry Green, who was the head coach at each stop, then as an assistant under Larry Brown for the National Basketball Association's Philadelphia 76ers.
Turgeon was hired for his first head coaching job at Jacksonville State in Alabama, but in 2000, he jumped back to his home state, taking over as the head coach of Wichita State.
In the 2006 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, Turgeon guided his 7th seeded Shocker team to the Sweet 16 after an upset of 2nd seeded Tennessee.
Mark Turgeon and the Shockers started the 2006-2007 season off winning on the road at George Mason[1], LSU[2], and Syracuse.[3] They reached the AP top ten on December 4, 2006.[4]
[edit] References
- Mark Turgeon Bio - Wichita State University Shockers. Retrieved on 2007-02-02.
- ^ Shockers Top Patriots, 72-66 - Wichita State University Shockers. Retrieved on 2007-02-02.
- ^ WSU Defeats No. 6 LSU, 57-73 - Wichita State University Shockers.
- ^ Wichita State Squeezes Past Orange, 64-61 - Wichita State University Shockers. Retrieved on 2007-02-02.
- ^ WSU Ranked No. 10 in AP Poll - Wichita State University Shockers.
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