{"id":151667,"date":"2026-03-03T22:38:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T22:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/151667\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T22:38:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T22:38:28","slug":"d2-dirt-collier-out-as-head-basketball-coach-at-queens-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/151667\/","title":{"rendered":"D2 DIRT: Collier out as Head Basketball Coach at Queens (NY)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Story: Adam Nelson (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HD_DirtKing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@HD_DirtKing<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>I can confirm through a great source that Matt Collier is out as the head basketball coach at D2 Queens (NY).<\/p>\n<p>Collier, a Queens native, just wrapped up his his ninth season as the Knights head coach. Collier led the Knights to five ECC postseason appearances, highlighted by a 2024\u201325 run to the conference semifinals\u2014the program\u2019s best finish since 2010\u201311. Queens also placed third in the ECC last season and matched its highest win (13) total since 2016\u201317. This past season, his team finished 8-19 (4-12).<\/p>\n<p>More on this move once an official announcement is made.<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Story: Adam Nelson (@HD_DirtKing) I can confirm through a great source that Matt Collier is out as the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-151667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151667","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=151667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}