Former Texas Tech women's basketball coach Marlene Stollings filed a lawsuit against the school and athletic director Kirby Hocutt on Tuesday.
Stollings was fired on Aug. 6, a day after USA Today published a story detailing an alleged culture of physical and emotional abuse in the Lady Raiders program. In Stollings's two years as head coach of the program, 12 players left amid allegations of the abuse.
The lawsuit, which was filed on Oct. 20 in U.S. District Court in Lubbock, Texas, claims fraudulent inducement, fraud, breach of contract, defamation and sex discrimination.