{"id":185613,"date":"2026-04-04T18:40:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T18:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/185613\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T18:40:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T18:40:01","slug":"k-states-castillo-to-enter-transfer-portal-after-2-years-in-manhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/185613\/","title":{"rendered":"K-State\u2019s Castillo to enter transfer portal after 2 years in Manhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MANHATTAN, Kan. (KCTV) &#8211; One of the top scorers for K-State this past season is on his way to the transfer portal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to a report from On3\u2019s Joe Tipton, sophomore guard David Castillo will not return to Manhattan for his junior season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Castillo, the highest-rated high school signee for the Wildcats during the Jerome Tang era, averaged 10.3 points per game for K-State as the Wildcats went 12-20 in 2025-26. That trailed P.J. Haggerty and Nate Johnson for third-most among the Wildcats.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Kansas State guard David Castillo (10) controls the ball during the first half of an NCAA...\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/LAI7CZIA3BDHDMPLVIQFCB2QBQ.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>Kansas State guard David Castillo (10) controls the ball during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Houston, Saturday, Feb. 14, 2026, in Houston. (AP Photo\/ Karen Warren)(Karen Warren | AP)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Bartlesville, Oklahoma, native shot 40% from the floor and 35.2% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He will not remain with the Wildcats as new head coach Casey Alexander takes over the lead in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Castillo is the second player from K-State\u2019s 2025-26 team to enter the transfer portal, joining Stephen Osei.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MANHATTAN, Kan. (KCTV) &#8211; One of the top scorers for K-State this past season is on his way&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[67022,52399,74638,74636,52389,74637,74635,75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-185613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-casey-alexander","9":"tag-david-castillo","10":"tag-david-castillo-transfer-portal","11":"tag-david-castillo-transferring","12":"tag-jerome-tang","13":"tag-jerome-tang-era","14":"tag-k-state-wildcats","15":"tag-manhattan","16":"tag-manhattan-headlines","17":"tag-manhattan-news","18":"tag-new-york","19":"tag-new-york-city","20":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185613","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=185613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}