Hazing and Corruption Allegations Rock New Mexico State University

Former New Mexico State basketball players Deuce Benjamin and Shak Odunewu held a news conference to discuss the lawsuit they filed alleging teammates ganged up and sexually assaulted them multiple times, while their coaches and others at the school didn’t act when confronted with the allegations. The players, their attorneys, and Benjamin’s father, William, an Aggie Hall of Famer who is also a plaintiff in the lawsuit, spent nearly an hour detailing the ways the university failed the students. The state’s department of education is getting involved, and the lawsuit has two missions: to find justice for the Benjamins and Odunewu and to effect change at a school where the basketball program alone has sparked no fewer than a half-dozen investigations.