Turgeon Takes Over at Wichita State

A day after resigning as basketball coach at Jacksonville State, Mark Turgeon was hired to succeed Randy Smithson at Wichita State, a job bringing him back to his native Kansas. Turgeon, born in Topeka, was a point guard at Kansas in the mid-1980s and later an assistant there under Larry Brown and Roy Williams. . . . Eastern Washington Coach Steve Aggers, a former Pepperdine assistant, has been contacted about coaching vacancies at Cal State Fullerton and Loyola Marymount, sources said.