{"id":32339,"date":"2025-07-23T23:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T23:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/32339\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T23:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T23:18:08","slug":"byu-has-added-a-new-international-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/32339\/","title":{"rendered":"BYU has added a new international guard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Young has brought another international prospect to Provo.<\/p>\n<p>BYU has signed Austrian combo guard Aleksej Kosti\u0107, the program announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re very excited to add Aleksej to our program here at BYU,\u201d Young\u00a0said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/byucougars.com\/news\/2025\/7\/30\/aleksej-kostic-signs-with-byu-mens-basketball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:statement;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">statement<\/a>. \u201cHe brings valuable experience having represented his country on the national team level. He is a high-level shooter who can play multiple positions and gives us another ball handler and play maker. We look forward to helping him take his game to another level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Kosti\u0107 most recently played in the Austrian Basketball Superliga, where he averaged 6.5 points per game and shot 36.3% from 3-point range. He is currently training with the Austrian National Team for their FIBA Men\u2019s World Cup 2027 qualifying matches in early August.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-4 Kosti\u0107 will be one of five international players on BYU\u2019s roster this coming season, joining Keba Keita, Khadim Mboup, Dominique Diomande and Mihailo Boskovic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kevin Young has brought another international prospect to Provo. BYU has signed Austrian combo guard Aleksej Kosti\u0107, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,4815,27167,27165,27166,398,400,27168,401,99,13417],"class_list":["post-32339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-byu","tag-isaac-hale","tag-kevin-young","tag-marriott-center","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaa-mens-basketball-game","tag-ncaabasketball","tag-sports","tag-west-virginia-mountaineers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32339","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=32339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}