Kansas State men\u2019s basketball has its first returning piece of the offseason.<\/p>\n
In a social media announcement on Monday, K-State freshman wing Andrej Kostic stated plans to remain in Manhattan and continue his career under new head coach Casey Alexander.<\/p>\n
A high-profile international prospect, Kostic showed flashes in his debut season despite injuries and limited playing time.<\/p>\n
The 6-foot-6 wing averaged 5.2 points while shooting 37.5% from 3-point range. Prior to arriving in Manhattan, Kostic starred for Serbia\u2019s U18 and U19 national teams and averaged 16.4 points in Serbia\u2019s top professional league.<\/p>\n
Kostic becomes the first player from the Jerome Tang era to publicly announce his return under Alexander, who had 3-point shooting as one of his keys to success at Belmont.<\/p>\n
His return marks Alexander\u2019s first addition from the current roster, joining two high school commits (Jaylen Alexander and Devin Hutcherson) as the Wildcats begin shaping the future.<\/p>\n
The revenue share budget for the men’s basketball team will be roughly $3.8 million, which is around 18% of K-State’s total of $21.3 million for the 2026-27 athletic year.<\/p>\n
K-State has lost five players to the portal in P.J. Haggerty, Abdi Bashir Jr., Stephen Osei, David Castillo and Exavier Wilson.<\/p>\n
More movement is expected in the coming days after the men\u2019s basketball transfer portal officially opens on April 7 and closes on April 21, lasting 15 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kansas State men\u2019s basketball has its first returning piece of the offseason. In a social media announcement on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,10784,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-187596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-men","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187596","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=187596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}