{"id":142761,"date":"2025-08-13T15:58:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T15:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/142761\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T15:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T15:58:11","slug":"juco-dirt-otero-college-set-to-hire-d2-assistant-as-new-head-basketball-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/142761\/","title":{"rendered":"JUCO DIRT: Otero College set to hire D2 assistant as new Head Basketball Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Story: Adam Nelson (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HD_DirtKing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@HD_DirtKing<\/a><\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p>I can confirm that NJCAA D1 Otero College will hire Eastern New Mexico assistant Tim Bowlen as their new head basketball coach.<\/p>\n<p>Bowlen was in his second go around as an assistant at ENMU this past season, after also serving on the Greyhounds staff from 2021-2023. In between stints in New Mexico, Bowlen served as an assistant at Otero in 2023-24.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his time as an assistant, Bowlen also spent time as an intern under Mick Cronin at UCLA, and as a manager at IUPUI.<\/p>\n<p>An official announcement is expected shortly.<\/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 NJCAA D1 Otero College will hire Eastern New Mexico assistant&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":142762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1339,1317,1337,1338,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-142761","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","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}