FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — Colorado State employed Niko Medved’s high assistant to switch him as basketball coach following a fast 24-hour search.
Ali Farokhmanesh, 36, was promoted Wednesday night after Medved left Fort Collins earlier this week to educate at his alma mater, Minnesota.
The rent supplies some continuity for a program that was 143-85 beneath Medved and posted three 25-win seasons within the final 4 years. The Rams reached the NCAA Touranment 3 times in that span and reached the Spherical of 32 final weekend earlier than a buzzer-beater by Maryland’s Derik Queen denied them a visit to the Candy 16.
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Farokhmanesh agreed to a five-year contract price $4.5 million, based on the college.
In a information launch saying the rent, CSU athletic director John Weber stated, “I’m thrilled that Ali will proceed main our males’s basketball program, now as head coach.”
“Ali has a relentless perspective that he assaults every day with, which was necessary to us as we seemed for the following chief of our males’s basketball program,” Weber added. “There was important curiosity within the head coach place at Colorado State. After a particularly complete and aggressive nationwide search, Ali’s continued management of this program is necessary and actually excites me.”
Farokhmanesh spent the final eight years as Medved’s assisant, first at Drake in 2017-18 earlier than following him to Fort Collins.
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The Rams gained the Mountain West Convention Match and upset Memphis of their NCAA opener this 12 months. A day after that buzzer-beating heartbreaker, Medved introduced he was leaving for his hometown college.
This time, Farokhmanesh did not observe him.
“I am unable to wait to proceed to construct off the championship basis our gamers have established and push it to higher heights,” Farokhmanesh stated in an announcement launched by the college.
Throughout his enjoying profession, Farokhmanesh starred at Northern Iowa and hit profitable 3-pointers towards UNLV and No. 1-ranked Kansas within the 2010 NCAA Match.
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