‘There’s a Lot Out There for Us’

Nov 04, 2026 | Men's Basketball, Sports Extra

By: D. Scott Fritchen

"We only had one chance to come out here for the first time, and that part is really, really tough," Casey Alexander says, sitting at a long, black table and in front of a purple backdrop, the arms of his lavender quarter-zip crossed while faint droplets of sweat dot his forehead against the bright light inside the innards of Bramlage Coliseum in his first postgame Kansas State news conference on a trying Tuesday night.

Alexander is a 54-year-old and the 27th head coach at Kansas State, hired on March 13, and who has experienced great success over the course of his career as a head coach — a journey that began at Stetson and…