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Report: MSU student allegedly raped in 2015 by MSU basketball players speaks out

Three Michigan State basketball players raped a student in 2015, one week after the Final Four loss to Duke, and the university coerced the woman not to report it to authorities, according to a federal lawsuit. Detroit Free Press

Four years after she says she was raped by Michigan State University basketball players, a former MSU student plans to hold a news conference Thursday about her federal lawsuit against the school.

“I don’t want any other girl who has gone through this, or who God forbid may have to go through something like this, to feel for one second that they should be too afraid to come out and do something,” Bailey Kowalski said in a phone interview last week with the New York Times, which published it Wednesday.