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Recruiting trouble: Inside the sex assault scandal that threw MSU football for a loss

Inside LJ Scott’s on-campus apartment was a virtual who’s-who of Michigan State University athletes.

Scott was a star running back, and the party at his University Village apartment on Jan. 15, 2017, attracted teammates, men’s and women’s basketball players and friends who could party knowing they were off Monday for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Before 2 a.m., freshman lineman Josh King, who at 6-foot-6 was a big guy even in that company, was talking with a girl he had met previously and asked if she wanted to “speak somewhere quiet.”

He pulled her toward an available bathroom.