Medgar Evers coach shreds CUNYAC over ineligible player controversy: Complete embarrassment

Medgar Evers men’s basketball coach Brian Nigro believes the CUNY Athletic Conference committed a flagrant foul against his team.The Cougars lost to Lehman in the quarterfinals of the conference tournament, only for Lehman to later report it had played an ineligible player in its semifinal victory over John Jay.Nigro said the league commissioner emailed him and wrote how they had been eliminated by a team with an ineligible player, but a Lehman spokesperson told The Post that CUNYAC told the school Friday that the player’s eligibility for the Medgar Evers game was still under review and no decision had been made regarding potentially nullifying that game.The league — now run by Mammoth Sports Consulting — decided to push John Jay through to the finals, where the Bloodhounds will meet top-seeded Baruch on Friday night at 7 p.m.Nigro’s squad received no justice for facing a team with what he had been told was an ineligible player.“How could you just advance one team without the other?” Nigro told The Post.“To me, it’s like criminal to do that.

I feel for my kids more than anybody at this point because it was just not right what was done.”The Division III CUNYAC tournament became engulfed by a scandal Wednesday when Lehman — located in The Bronx — learned that one its players had “administratively withdrawn” from classes.That designation meant a player had not been attending classes he should have, according to a school spokesperson.The statement said the player contributed to the 74-63 victory over second-seeded John Jay on Tuesday, but did not mention last Saturday’s 98-66 quarterfinal blowout win over sixth-seeded Medgar Egars.Nigro said league commissioner Dr.Kurt Patberg emailed him regarding what he described as his team’s elimination by a team with an ineligible player, in contrast to what the league told Lehman.The Post sent multiple emails to CUNY officials that went unreturned Friday.Lehman claims to have immediately contacte...