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Coming off disappointing basketball season, Turgeon looks to change more than the record for Maryland

The first few days of preseason practice for the Maryland men’s basketball team this week have been a seamless transition from the early-summer workouts and three-game tour to Italy last month.

With perhaps the most athletic and potentially the deepest team he’s coached in his eight seasons in College Park, Mark Turgeon can see the Terps running and pressing more than any team since he arrived.

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The trip overseas was illuminating to a coach who’s been criticized at times for not changing a style that was successful at his previous stops and resulted in three straight NCAA tournament appearances before last season.