Documents show NMSU culture problems extend beyond men's basketball

New Mexico State University officials have insisted that culture problems in their athletic department were isolated to men's basketball, but documents obtained by ESPN show an official for the women's team was found to have sexually harassed a student in the past year, and they reflect at least three other ongoing Title IX investigations involving incidents in the arena that houses athletic offices and an apparent lack of scrutiny in officials' hiring practices.

All of that is in addition to recent allegations that a former football coach physically abused players under the threat of taking away their scholarships.

NMSU athletics have been under scrutiny since forward Mike Peake shot and killed a University of New Mexico student in what police called self-defense last November. Another investigation followed in February, when a men's basketball player accused his teammates of a months-long hazing campaign.

Head coach Greg Heiar was fired Feb. 14 after less than a year on the job, and the rest of the men's basketball season was canceled, but questions linger about both incidents.

The university declined to allow ESPN to interview any school or athletic department officials for this story. School leaders haven't publicly discussed the situation since mid-February, when then-chancellor Dan Arvizu and athletic director Mario Moccia emphasized that the problems in basketball were not pervasive.

«We have looked and done an expansive review of our programs and everything that I have learned is that our men's basketball program has been infected — with bad culture, bad behavior,» Arvizu told reporters. "[But] this culture of bad behavior is contained in our men's basketball, it is not elsewhere."

However, school records