{"id":206546,"date":"2026-03-06T01:51:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T01:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/206546\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T01:51:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T01:51:29","slug":"csub-womens-basketball-coach-on-paid-administrative-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/206546\/","title":{"rendered":"CSUB women&#8217;s basketball coach on paid administrative leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 Cal State Bakersfield has placed women&#8217;s basketball head coach Ari Wideman on paid administrative leave, effective March 4th.<\/p>\n<p>University officials confirmed the move but said they cannot provide further details because it is a personnel matter.<\/p>\n<p>Associate Head Coach Ray Alvarado is expected to serve as acting head coach for the remainder of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The decision comes amid a series of controversies within CSUB&#8217;s athletics department over the past year, including criminal charges filed against Kevin Mays, a former men&#8217;s basketball assistant coach, and multiple lawsuits involving the university&#8217;s athletic programs.<\/p>\n<p>This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>Stay in Touch with Us Anytime, Anywhere:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 Cal State Bakersfield has placed women&#8217;s basketball head coach Ari Wideman on paid administrative&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[95313,151,155,153,152,9930,26595,162,30495],"class_list":{"0":"post-206546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-ari-wideman","9":"tag-bakersfield","10":"tag-bakersfield-downtown","11":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","12":"tag-bakersfield-news","13":"tag-cal-state-bakersfield","14":"tag-csub","15":"tag-kern-county-news","16":"tag-womens-basketball"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}