WORCESTER (MA)
San Francisco Chronicle

Erin Fuchs, provided by Business Insider

Published 7:49 am, Wednesday, October 16, 2013

A former student at the College of Holy Cross has filed a lawsuit claiming the school’s longtime basketball coach is so abusive his behavior “exceeds the misconduct” of Mike Rice, the New York Post reports.

New York City native Ashley Cooper filed a suit in Manhattan court against the Massachusetts college claiming it ignored women’s basketball coach Bill Gibbons’ loud and abusive antics.

The veteran coach’s “yelling, ranting, screaming and hysterics directed toward the Holy Cross players as well as game referees … prompted players on opposing teams to remark: ‘your coach is crazy,’” according to the suit obtained by the Post.

At one point, the suit says, Gibbons “violently yanked and pulled Cooper by her shirt collar and strongly squeezed the back of her neck causing pain while barking instructions…