ALBANY, N.Y. -- Albany men's basketball coach Dwayne Killings, athletic director Mark Benson and the university are being sued by a former walk-on regarding a pregame incident a year ago that involved physical contact and what happened in the aftermath.
The lawsuit, first reported by The Daily Gazette of Schenectady, was filed this week in federal court in the Northern District of New York by Luke Fizulich. It accuses Killings of assault and battery and "tortious interference" for allegedly hampering Fizulich from continuing his studies at the university and hindering his chances of transferring to another school by spreading "a negative word" about him to other schools.