Casey Owens is an American basketball coach born in Lubbock, Texas in 1971. He attended New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico and the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University,in Boulder Colorado. Owens is an accomplished writer, having published a book of poetry, Desert Alien in 1996 by Editorial Praxis, out of Mexico City. He has also publsihed numerous articles in literary journals throughout the US and Mexico. Owens started his basketball career in 1999 with the New Mexico Slam of the now defunct International Basketball League. In 2001, Owens accepted the Assistant Coaching postion with the Dakota Wizards of the CBA. Owens and Head Coach Dave Joerger built nothing less than a juggernaut, winning two titles in three years, and winning the division each year they coached together. When Joerger left Dakota for Sioux Falls, Owens took the reins and guided the Wiards to the best record in the league in 2004-2005, highlighted by a Regular Season Championship, three NBA call-ups, a 12 game winning streak, and a trip to the CBA finals, where his Wizards fell in five games to Joerger's Skyforce. For his efforts, Owens was named CBA Coach of the Month three times in 2004-0005. The following season, Dakota's new ownership hired the controversial Bylor University coach Dave Bliss to replace Owens the following year and missed the CBA playoffs for the first time in the Wizards' CBA history. Owens left for Fayetteville of the NBA Development League in 2005-2006, and was then hired by Scott Skiles and the Chicago Bulls as the Head Video Coach for 2006-2007. In 2007-2008, Owens assisted former NBA player Joe Wolf in Denver with the Colorado 14ers of the DLeauge.
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