Three Michigan State basketball players raped a student in 2015, one week after the Final Four, and the university coerced the woman not to report it to authorities, according to a federal lawsuit filed Monday.
The case, which was filed in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan Southern Division, alleges three unnamed players — identified only as John Doe 1, 2 and 3 — took the 18-year-old, first-year female Jane Doe home from an East Lansing bar between the evening of April 11, 2015 and the morning of April 12.
The woman never reported the alleged sexual assault to police, said Karen Truszkowski, the woman’s attorney.