A college basketball coach ousted some 15 years ago for alleged transgressions cannot sustain a civil rights action against the NCAA, a federal judge has held in a long-running case replete with conspiracy theories and a mystique befitting March Madness.
Cohane v. National Collegiate Athletic Association, 04-cv-181, centers on a University at Buffalo coach who was pressured to resign in late 1999 when he was accused of watching potential recruits play pick-up ball in the college gym and other violations of NCAA rules.
