{"id":134765,"date":"2026-02-16T01:24:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T01:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/134765\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T01:24:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T01:24:26","slug":"k-state-parts-ways-with-head-basketball-coach-jerome-tang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/134765\/","title":{"rendered":"K-State parts ways with head basketball coach Jerome Tang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MANHATTAN, Kan. (KWCH) &#8211; Kansas State University has parted ways with head basketball coach Jerome Tang after four seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The announcement came on Sunday, just four days after a home loss of 91-62 to Cincinnati, which Tang called \u201cembarrassing\u201d. K-State has lost 11 of their last 12 basketball games, and is currently tied for last place in the Big 12.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Related Story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kwch.com\/2026\/02\/12\/cincinnati-dominates-k-state-manhattan-tang-doesnt-hold-back-chiding-team\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kwch.com\/2026\/02\/12\/cincinnati-dominates-k-state-manhattan-tang-doesnt-hold-back-chiding-team\/\">Cincinnati dominates K-State in Manhattan, Tang doesn\u2019t hold back in chiding team<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Tang is in the middle of his fourth season in Manhattan. In Tang\u2019s first season, he guided K-State to the Elite Eight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to On3, the two sides \u201cremain in discussion\u201d of his $18 million buyout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Related Content:<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KWCH. All rights reserved. To report a correction or typo, please email news@kwch.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MANHATTAN, Kan. (KWCH) &#8211; Kansas State University has parted ways with head basketball coach Jerome Tang after four&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[29344,4567,3361,52389,57290,57289,13341,42412,52391,13695,42411,57288,42413,42414,42415,75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-134765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-12-news","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-college-basketball","11":"tag-jerome-tang","12":"tag-jerome-tang-fired","13":"tag-k-state-basketball","14":"tag-k-state","15":"tag-kake","16":"tag-kansas-state","17":"tag-kansas-state-university","18":"tag-ksn","19":"tag-ksu","20":"tag-kwch","21":"tag-kwch-12","22":"tag-kwch-news","23":"tag-manhattan","24":"tag-manhattan-headlines","25":"tag-manhattan-news","26":"tag-new-york","27":"tag-new-york-city","28":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}