{"id":162582,"date":"2026-03-13T17:40:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T17:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/162582\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T17:40:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T17:40:35","slug":"belmont-basketball-coach-named-head-coach-at-kansas-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/162582\/","title":{"rendered":"Belmont basketball coach named head coach at Kansas State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) &#8211; The Belmont Bruins have a coaching search on their hands as Kansas State has announced Casey Alexander as the Wildcats\u2019 next head coach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Alexander was announced as K-State\u2019s new coach on Friday morning, following seven seasons at Belmont.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link | text-reset d-block h-100 w-100\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsmv.com\/page\/our-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"WSMV - template image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1773423635_889_PYQCNXWUIVE27BALA565ZY2LFQ.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Belmont student-athlete turned coach notched 166 wins and four conference titles for the Bruins, along with the 2026 Missouri Valley Conference Championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI\u2019m incredibly excited to join the team at K-State and can\u2019t wait to get the journey started,\u201d Alexander said. \u201cK-State has such a rich tradition and a wildly passionate fan base and I\u2019m grateful for the opportunity provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kstatesports.com\/staff-directory\/gene-taylor\/1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gene Taylor<\/a> to be a part of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Alexander agreed to a five-year contract with the Wildcats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-2\">\u201cOn behalf of our athletic department and entire Belmont University community, I want to thank Casey for his leadership of our men\u2019s basketball program. His 27 years of service to Belmont as a student-athlete, assistant coach, and head coach have been characterized by winning\u00a0on the court\u00a0and sustained excellence\u00a0in the classroom and community. Casey embodies the qualities of character, commitment, and selflessness we aspire for everyone who sets foot on our campus. We wish Casey, Sunni, and the entire Alexander family well in this exciting new chapter in their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Earlier in March, Alexander was named as a finalist for the Hugh Durham Coach of the Year Award.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WSMV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) &#8211; The Belmont Bruins have a coaching search on their hands as Kansas State has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[2465,67022,3361,2149,52391,610,75,84,83,17873,9,24,12,63,287,18528],"class_list":["post-162582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-belmont","tag-casey-alexander","tag-college-basketball","tag-kansas","tag-kansas-state","tag-local","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-nashville","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-tennessee","tag-wsmv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162582","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=162582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}