In his first season at Wichita State, men’s basketball coach Mark Turgeon went away from the man-to-man defensive principles he learned up the road at Kansas under Larry Brown by having his rebuilding team play zone for an entire game. The Shockers lost.
That might have been the most one of Turgeon’s teams played zone — until Tuesday night.
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Faced with a seven-point deficit early in the second half and the fact that his young team couldn’t stop Minnesota — with or without sophomore center Bruno Fernando, who was on the bench after picking up his third personal foul — Maryland went zone.