Four LIU basketball players, including the school’s three leading scorers, were charged with assault yesterday after a weekend campus fight with three men and two women on the track team, law-enforcement sources said.
Four track-team members were taken to Brooklyn Hospital after the Brooklyn dormitory brawl early Saturday. They were not seriously injured.
The busted basketball players — C.J. Garner, 22, Julian Boyd, 22, Troy Joseph, 21, and Jamal Olasewere, 21 — were charged with third-degree assault. It was unclear what sparked the fight.
Boyd, Olasewere and Garner were LIU Brooklyn’s three leading scorers last season.
LIU is coming off a remarkable two-year run, winning consecutive Northeast Conference (NEC) regular season and tournament titles but losing to national powers North Carolina and Michigan State in the NCAA Tournament.
Boyd and Olasewere have been a major part of the Blackbirds’ success.
The 6-foot-7 Boyd, a San Antonio, Texas, native, was the NEC Player of the Year and AP honorable mention All-American last winter, while Olasewere, a Maryland native, was named to the conference’s first team.
Even before the incident, LIU was in a transitional stage, with head coach Jim Ferry leaving to take a job at Duquesne. Assistant Jack Perri was elevated to be his replacement in April.