Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY Sports
Michigan State coach Tom Izzo and two assistant coaches contacted a witness during a 2017 sexual assault investigation involving then freshman guard Brock Washington, according to Paula Lavigne and Nicole Noren of ESPN.
Michigan State student Brayden Smith was with Washington on the night of Aug. 28, 2017, when a woman, Rebecca Lambert, says the basketball player groped her without her consent. Smith told police that Izzo and assistant coaches Dwayne Stephens and Mike Garland reached out to him about the incident before his interview with the authorities.
According to a police report obtained by ESPN, the coaches "asked [Smith] if he was OK and if there was anything that he had seen during the evening.