State lawsuit calls multiple fouls on hoops recruiting firm

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. (AP) — The state attorney general says an upstate New York basketball recruiting business lured players with college and professional aspirations through false claims of providing "the very best" coaching and training facilities.

Attorney General Barbara Underwood announced Tuesday that a lawsuit filed in a state court in Binghamton seeks to stop AAUConnect in nearby Endicott from "engaging in fraudulent and deceptive conduct."

Underwood's lawsuits says the company boasted of having the best post-grad girls' program in the Northeast yet had no such program in place.

It also says enrolled players were promised "upscale" meals, college-like living arrangements and college-quality playing facilities.