Mark Turgeon faces his mentor Roy Williams

Posted Feb 4, 2012
Maryland coach Mark Turgeon – who faces a mentor in UNC coach Roy Williams at Comcast Center on Saturday – spent Friday's media session looking back to the bizarre Miami game and looking ahead to going against Williams for the first time. Before hiring Turgeon in May, Maryland spoke to Williams, who provided his former staff member a glowing reference. Turgeon was one of Williams' assistants at Kansas. (Baltimore Sun)

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