Report: Gregg Marshall, Wichita State to Part Ways Amid Abuse Investigation |

“The investigation is being completed in an expeditious and deliberate manner. We have received full cooperation from university staff, coaches, and current student-athletes, and Coach Gregg Marshall and support any individual who chooses to participate in order to conduct a fair, impartial and thorough investigation.

“In the interim, activities of the team will continue as scheduled, and, as it does regularly, the university has reminded all staff, coaches and student-athletes of relevant policies and channels for reporting concerns.”

Marshall also released a statement through his agent in which he defended himself and explained he would cooperate with the investigation, per Goodman:

Goodman reported on the allegations of abuse, noting he contacted 36 former and current members of the basketball program, including 26 players, who had experience with Marshall and detailed patterns of physical and verbal abuse that also included alleged instances of racism.

Among the most notable allegations was Shaq Morris saying Marshall punched him twice during a 2015 practice.

“Shaq Morris told me that he informed Gregg Marshall that his mother had cancer just hours prior to Marshall punching him in the head in practice,” Goodman wrote.

“I love my teammates, the city and Wichita State,” Morris said. “But if I could go back to that day when he punched me, I would have left.”

The Stadium report also detailed allegations that Marshall choked assistant coach Kyle Lindsted during the 2016-17 season, told Isaiah Poor Bear-Chandler, who is of Native American descent, “to get back on his horse” and make “Indian howling noises” during the 2018-19 season, and told Jamie Echenique, who is from Colombia, that he would be “a great coffee bean picker” when he struggled on the court.

“We were tight-knit off the court,” a player said. “We all wanted to beat Marshall up. If he wasn’t the head coach, we’d whoop his ass. I’m not a fan. I’m not rooting for him. I got tired of being mother(bleeped) and being called a son of a bitch every day.”

Goodman noted 10 players transferred away from Wichita State in just the last two years, which…