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MANHATTAN, Kan.&nbsp;&ndash; Head coach&nbsp;Casey Alexander&nbsp;announced the additions of&nbsp;Wes Long,&nbsp;Bryce Haase,&nbsp;Lee Scott&nbsp;and&nbsp;Isaiah Walker&nbsp;to his coaching staff on Tuesday morning (April 14). Long will serve as Chief of Staff, Haase as the Director of Analytics, Scott as strength and conditioning coach and Walker as Director of Player Development. The quartet joins recently hired assistant coaches&nbsp;John Cooper,&nbsp;Phil Cunningham,&nbsp;JJ Butler,&nbsp;Kerron&nbsp;(kuh-RON)&nbsp;Johnson&nbsp;and&nbsp;Luke Smith&nbsp;and General Manager&nbsp;Sean Rutigliano&nbsp;(roo-till-ee-AH-know)&nbsp;on the coaching staff. In addition,&nbsp;<dfn><a href="https://www.kstatesports.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/coaches/bailey-bachamp/2828" rel="smarttag" rev="2828">Bailey Bachamp</a></dfn>&nbsp;will continue in her role as the Director of Men's Basketball Operations. She is set to enter her 15th&nbsp;year working with the men's basketball, including her fifth as the Director of Operations. Her tenure at K-State spans head coaches&nbsp;Bruce Weber,&nbsp;Jerome Tang&nbsp;and now Alexander. Long, who has head coaching experience at Division II Queens University in Charlotte from 2008-13, arrives at K-State after serving on staff at Middle Tennessee State for the past eight seasons (2018-26), including the last four (2022-26) as associate head coach, under head coach&nbsp;Nick McDevitt. He has 22 years of coaching experience, including stints at Queens (2004-13), Chattanooga (2013-15), VCU (2015-17), UNC Asheville (2017-18) and MTSU.
Haase and Scott were both on Alexander's staff at Belmont the past three seasons (2023-26) with Haase first serving as a graduate assistant (2023-25) before being promoted to director of strategy and analytics in 2025-26. Scott was the Bruins' director of performance since 2023 after nine seasons (2014-23) at Texas A&amp;M-Corpus Christi, including the last seven (2016-23) as assistant athletic director for sports performance. Walker played three seasons (2022-25) for Alexander at Belmont before recently finishing his playing career at Xavier in 2025-26. He played in 32 games for the Musketeers with one start, averaging 4.7 points and 2.7 rebounds in 17.1 minutes per game.</div><a href="https://www.kstatesports.com/news/2026/4/14/mens-basketball-alexander-adds-to-coaching-staff">Click here</a> for full bios and quotes about each coach

🏀 K-State's Alexander adds to coaching staff