{"id":319,"date":"2025-07-11T02:29:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T02:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/319\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T02:29:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T02:29:03","slug":"d3-dirt-colby-set-to-hire-d1-assistant-as-new-head-basketball-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/319\/","title":{"rendered":"D3 DIRT: Colby set to hire D1 assistant as new Head Basketball Coach"},"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 that Colby will hire Belmont associate head coach Sean Rutigliano as their new head men\u2019s basketball coach. The move was signed off on following a meeting with the college\u2019s President earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Rutigliano had spent the past six seasons on the Casey Alexander\u2019s staff at Belmont, and was elevated to associate head coach prior to last season. Prior to his time at Belmont, he worked for Alexander for four years at Lipscomb. Rutigliano has been a part of nine\u00a0consecutive 20-win seasons with Alexander.<\/p>\n<p>Rutigliano also spent five seasons as an assistant coach at Army West Point, and spent time as an assistant at Kean University (NJ), University of Alabama Huntsville and Ouachita Baptist University.<\/p>\n<p>Other finalists for this one included Holy Cross assistant coach Bryson Johnson, Brown assistant Sam Hershberger, and a current D3 head coach.<\/p>\n<p>An official announcement is expected shortly.<\/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 that Colby will hire Belmont associate head coach Sean Rutigliano as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,398,400,401,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-basketball","11":"tag-ncaabasketball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}