Bozeman Denies Accusations

Ousted California basketball coach Todd Bozeman is turning the tables on a former student at the school who accused him of threatening her and making sexual telephone calls to her.

Bozeman, who resigned under pressure Wednesday after 3-1/2 years with the school, said Friday that Suzanne M. Wilson, not he, sought a sexual relationship and that she lied to him about what she would do with $2,000 he loaned her for law school tuition. With his arm around his wife at a court hearing, Bozeman said the only threat he ever made against Wilson was that he would tell the police and FBI about her participation in an alleged pyramid scheme in which he said he lost money.

Wilson, a 22-year-old first-year student at Hastings College of the Law, obtained a temporary restraining order against Bozeman on Aug. 14 after complaining that he made threatening telephone calls and that some calls took on a sexual nature.