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The first vacancy of the 2026 coaching carousel has filled, and it’s a big get for a small school: Former Maryland<\/a> coach Mark Turgeon has agreed to a five-year contract to be the next man in charge at Kansas City<\/a>. The Roos are playing out the string this season under departing coach Marvin Menzies; the school announced in January<\/a> that it was moving on from Menzies’ four-year run at season’s end.\u00a0<\/p>\n Kansas City, which is 4-18 and ranks near the bottom of Division I this season, made the move official and announced Turgeon’s hiring<\/a> Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n Turgeon, who turns 61 on Feb. 5, has a 479-275 record across 23 and a half seasons. He began his career at Jacksonville State<\/a>, then Turgeon upped his profile in a seven-year stint at Wichita State<\/a>, including a 2006 Sweet 16 appearance. From 2007-11, Turgeon ran Texas A&M’s<\/a> program and took the Aggies to four straight NCAA Tournaments. That landed him his biggest job: Maryland.\u00a0<\/p>\n Turgeon had an NCAA Tournament-level team in six of his nine full seasons in College Park, though he only took the Terrapins to the Big Dance five times due to his 24-7 team not getting a chance to play in the canceled 2020 NCAA Tournament. He took over the Terps in 2011, lasting a little more than a decade. Turgeon resigned from his post<\/a> at Maryland on Dec. 3, 2021, amid a rocky start and toxic situation with the fan base.<\/p>\n A little more than four years removed from roaming the sidelines, Turgeon is hopping back into the profession. He does so in surprising fashion by heading to the Summit League level; it’s conceivable Turgeon could have landed a bigger job in March, when dozens more will inevitably come available. Turgeon has ties to the area: He played at Kansas<\/a> in the 1980s and grew up in Topeka, Kansas. A source said that Turgeon will bring his son, Will, on staff as well.<\/p>\n Kansas City AD Brandon Martin made a significant push on Turgeon in the past two weeks (and a source said it’s not the first time he tried to court a former power-conference coach). Martin ultimately swayed Turgeon, and in doing so, the Roos will boast one of the most accomplished coaches at the mid-major level.<\/p>\n Kansas City (formerly UMKC) has been in Division I since the late 1980s but never made the NCAA Tournament.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Imagn Images The first vacancy of the 2026 coaching carousel has filled, and it’s a big get for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,217,77876,62207,62283],"class_list":{"0":"post-575794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-college-basketball-coaching-changes","11":"tag-kansas-city-roos","12":"tag-mark-turgeon"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115997353221110619","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}