{"id":206564,"date":"2026-03-06T02:04:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T02:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/206564\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T02:04:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T02:04:18","slug":"csub-womens-head-basketball-coach-put-on-administrative-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/206564\/","title":{"rendered":"CSUB women’s head basketball coach put on administrative leave"},"content":{"rendered":"

BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 California State University, Bakersfield women’s head basketball coach, Ari Wideman, has been placed on paid administrative leave, according to Jennifer Self, Senior Director of Strategic Communications at CSUB.<\/p>\n

The cause for the placement was not announced.<\/p>\n

\"New<\/p>\n

New CSUB women’s basketball head coach, Ari Wideman. Credit: CSUB athletics<\/p>\n

Self said Ray Alvardo, associate head coach, will serve as acting head coach for the remainder of the season.<\/p>\n

Wideman was hired in May 2024 as the program’s first black female head coach<\/a>, following the announcement to not renew the contract<\/a> of long-tenured head coach Greg McCall in March 2024.<\/p>\n

Men’s basketball head coach Rod Barnes stepped away from the program in September 2025<\/a>. He spent 14 seasons with the Roadrunners.<\/p>\n

Director of Athletics Kyle Conder departed from CSUB that same month<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Several coaching changes took place in the swimming and diving program, most recently when Director Eric Bugby a<\/a>nnounced his resignation in October 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n

These coaching changes took place just before or after, for years, following former CSUB assistant men’s basketball coach Kevin Mays arres in early September for allegedly trafficking a woman across three state<\/a>s<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This story is developing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 California State University, Bakersfield women’s head basketball coach, Ari Wideman, has been placed on paid…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-206564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206564","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=206564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}