The two former New Mexico State basketball players who say they were sexually assaulted by teammates told ESPN that their alleged attackers targeted others on the team, including some assistant coaches, and manipulated players into not talking.

"There were most definitely other players that got attacked the way that we got attacked," Shakiru Odunewu said in an interview this week. "But … these other guys, I feel like they manipulated them to believe that if they came out, that they were snitching."

Odunewu and Deuce Benjamin told ESPN the players who harassed them also pulled down assistant coaches' pants in public.

"After the [game] at UTEP, when we lost, they pantsed one of the assistants," Benjamin said. One assistant coach had his pants pulled down while he slept on the bus, he said, and another was targeted but yelled enough to dissuade the attackers. "[Other coaches acted] like they didn't see it," Benjamin said.

The coaches who the players said were targeted didn't return voicemails or emails from ESPN seeking comment.