Mark Turgeon

Quick Facts

Full Name	Mark Turgeon
Occupation	Basketball Coach
Date Of Birth	Feb 5, 1965(1965-02-05)
Age	59
Birthplace	Topeka
Country	United States
Birth City	Kansas
Horoscope	Aquarius

Mark Turgeon Biography

Mark Turgeon is one of the most popular and richest Basketball Coach who was born on February 5, 1965 in Topeka, Kansas, United States. Coach of the basketball team who took home a MVC regular season title in 2006 with Wichita State and became the head coach for Maryland in the year 2011.

As an assistant coach, he worked with the 76ers when He was an assistant coach for the 76ers while Allen Iverson played there. played for them.

Turgeon played basketball at Hayden High School, helping the team post a 47-3 record and capture two consecutive Class 4A state championships in 1982 and

1983. Turgeon earned All-State Tournament team honors in both of those years.

Although only 5 feet 10 inches out of high school, Turgeon earned a scholarship to play basketball at the University of Kansas under Coach Larry Brown. Turgeon played in four straight NCAA tournaments, becoming the first KU player to do so. He was a reserve point guard for the 1985–86 Jayhawk team that won the Big Eight Conference regular season and tournament title and also advanced to the Final Four in the 1986 NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Tournament. The team finished that season 35–4 overall. Turgeon was a team captain for both the 1986 and 1987 squads, was a member of the Big Eight All- Freshmen Team in 1984, and was also a Big Eight All-Academic Performer in

1986. Fans called him “The Surgeon” because, in addition to the phrase rhyming with his surname, he had the ability to “carve up defenses.”

His birthplace was in Topeka, Kansas.

Mark Turgeon Net Worth

Mark Turgeon is one of the richest Basketball Coach from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mark Turgeon 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

A point guard, he played at Kansas.

Between 2007 and 2011 from 2007 to 2011, he played as head coach at Texas A&M.

Mark Leo Turgeon (born February 5, 1965) is an American college basketball coach. He is currently the head men’s basketball coach at the University of Maryland, College Park, a position he has held since 2011. Turgeon served as the head men’s basketball coach at Jacksonville State University from 1998 to 2000, Wichita State University from 2000 to 2007, and Texas A&M University from 2007 to 2011.

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Turgeon briefly left college coaching in 1997. When head coach Jerry Green left Oregon to coach at the University of Tennessee, Turgeon again chose to work for his former coach, Larry Brown, becoming an assistant for the National Basketball Association’s Philadelphia 76ers for a year.

Facts & Trivia

Mark Ranked on the list of most popular Basketball Coach. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Mark Turgeon celebrates birthday on February 5 of every year.

After the 1999–2000 season, Turgeon returned to his home state as head coach of the Wichita State Shockers, a team which had had only two winning seasons in the previous 11 years. In his first season with the Shockers, the team lost their first 11 games before winning 9 of their last 17 for a 9–19 record. Of their losses, two came in overtime and four others were decided by fewer than four points. They improved the following season to 15 wins and 15 losses, the most wins the team had had in a season in four years. For the next three seasons, the team steadily improved, earning a berth in the National Invitation Tournament for each of 2003, 2004, and 2005 seasons.

Top Facts about Mark Turgeon

1. Mark Turgeon is a college basketball coach born in 1965.
2. He played college basketball at Kansas from 1984-1987.
3. Turgeon has coached at Wichita State, Texas A&M, and Maryland.
4. He has won multiple conference Coach of the Year awards.
5. Turgeon has led his teams to over 500 career wins.
6. His Maryland teams have made six NCAA tournament appearances.
7. Turgeon’s coaching style emphasizes defense and rebounding.
8. He is known for developing players into NBA prospects.
9. Turgeon was named the Big Ten Coach of the Year in 2021.
10. He is highly respected among his peers in the coaching community.