More men allege sexual misconduct by ex-Indiana team doctor - ESPN

At least 15 former Indiana University men's basketball players are now alleging improper sexual conduct by a former team physician and saying Indiana officials, including the late coach Bobby Knight, were aware of the behavior.

Since two former Hoosiers sued the university last fall, five ex-athletes are now named in the lawsuit, and 10 additional men are also planning to pursue litigation against Indiana, their attorney, Michelle Simpson Tuegel, told ESPN.

Even though their legal path grew more difficult with the death of Dr. Bradford Bomba last month and the release of an outside investigation that cleared him of sexual misconduct, the men say they are driven to share their stories, in part to protect others from such behavior.

«I have two sons who are the same age that I was when that happened to me. At the time I viewed myself as an adult, but now I realize, looking at my own kids, how young and powerless me and my teammates actually were,» Haris Mujezinovic, who was one of the two original plaintiffs and played for the Hoosiers in the late '90s before going pro overseas, wrote in an email. «The adults within the basketball program who were entrusted with our care knew what was happening to us. They joked about it and let it continue.»

In their lawsuit and in interviews, the men say Bomba, who worked as an Indiana men's basketball team physician for nearly 30 years up until the late '90s, routinely gave male athletes rectal exams during physicals even though medical guidance did not recommend them for college-age men. The lawsuit claims the behavior amounted to sexual misconduct and that university officials aware of the issue — including Knight, who died in 2023 — failed to stop it. A representative for Bomba's