COLLEGE PARK — Football coach Randy Edsall doesn't have a monopoly at Maryland on game plans and seasons impacted by injuries.
Men's basketball coach Mark Turgeon quickly is catching up to his counterpart in College Park.
With senior forward Evan Smotrycz out for an undetermined period with what Turgeon classified Friday as a "bad" sprain of his left ankle, the Terps could start a season without a key player for the third time in Turgeon's four seasons.
In his first season, Turgeon had to go with a point-guard-by-committee when Pe'Shon Howard missed the first nine games with a broken foot. A year ago, guard Seth Allen broke his left foot before the start of the season and didn't come back until mid-January.
Now it's Smotrycz, who said he rolled his left ankle at practice Friday and showed up at Maryland Madness a few hours later on crutches, with his left foot in a walking boot. Turgeon tried to keep the mood upbeat Friday, but this is not the way he wanted to go into his first season in the Big Ten Conference.