{"id":8002,"date":"2025-07-14T02:06:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T02:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/8002\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T02:06:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T02:06:03","slug":"d2-dirt-uc-merced-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/8002\/","title":{"rendered":"D2 DIRT: UC Merced opens"},"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 Kevin Pham is no longer the head men\u2019s basketball coach at rising NCAA D2 UC Merced. <\/p>\n<p>Pham, the 2024-25\u00a0California Pacific Conference Coach of the Year, had been at the helm of the Bobcats for the past ten seasons. Last season, Pham led the Bobcats to a 20-7 record and a perfect 10-0 mark in Cal Pac play. Pham is only the second coach in UC Merced men\u2019s basketball history, taking over the program following a three-year stint as the Bobcats women\u2019s basketball coach.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>UC Merced is transitioning from the the NAIA to NCAA D2 where they will join the CCAA starting in the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n<p>More on this move once it becomes official.<\/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 Kevin Pham is no longer the head men\u2019s basketball coach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,398,400,401,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-8002","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\/8002","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=8002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}