Bacari Alexander
Alexander in 2015.
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| Sport(s) | Men's basketball |
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| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Detroit |
| Conference | Horizon League |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
September 15, 1976 Detroit, Michigan |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 2001–2007 | Detroit (asst.) |
| 2008–2008 | Ohio (asst.) |
| 2008–2010 | Western Michigan (asst.) |
| 2010–2016 | Michigan (asst.) |
| 2016–present | Detroit |
Bacari Torrell Alexander (born September 15, 1976) is an American college basketball coach, currently the men's basketball head coach at Detroit Mercy. He is a former assistant coach at Michigan, Western Michigan, Ohio, and Detroit Mercy. At Michigan, Alexander was responsible for coaching the team's post players, developing defensive strategies, scouting opponents and on-court coaching. In six seasons as an assistant coach under Michigan head coach John Beilein, Michigan advanced to the NCAA Tournament each year, won Big Ten Conference regular season championships in 2012 and 2014 and appeared in the Elite 8 in 2014 and the National Championship in 2013.
Alexander was born in Detroit, Michigan and played high school basketball at Detroit Southwestern High School. He starred in two seasons of college basketball at Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh an earned NEC All-Newcomer honors in his freshman campaign (1994–95 season) before transferring to Detroit Mercy. In two seasons with the Detroit, Alexander appeared in 62 games and, along with teammate and fellow co-captain Jermaine Jackson, helped lead the Titans to back-to-back NCAA Tournament berths in 1998 and 1999. He was known as "the enforcer" on the Titans' 1999 team.
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