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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yann Hufnagel, an assistant coach for the Cal men\u2019s basketball team, was fired following investigation into allegations of sexual harassment, according&amp;nbsp;to Connor Letourneau of the &lt;em&gt;San Francisco Chronicle&lt;/em&gt;.&amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hufnagel has been a member of the coaching staff since Cuonzo Martin\u2019s arrival two years ago. He previously served as an assistant at Vanderbilt and Harvard.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Details of the allegations have not been disclosed yet. The school released a statement on Monday that \u201Ceffective immediately&amp;nbsp;Hufnagel has been relieved of his duties pending the outcome of the termination process and will not be traveling with the team during its NCAA Men\u2019s Basketball tournament run.\u201D\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hufnagel&amp;nbsp;posted a message on Twitter on Tuesday that the focus should be on the team, calling the report a \u201Ca fruitless claim.\u201D He continued to stand by his innocence on Wednesday.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u201CThese last two days have been gut-wrenching,\u201D he wrote on Twitter. \u201CBeing ripped away from a team that I love deeply has been, in a word, unbearable. I take these allegations incredibly seriously, but the report is wrong. The outpouring of support has been unwavering and heartfelt. I have hired legal counsel to fight Cal's plan to terminate me.\u201D\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Cal continues to face criticism from its faculty for its handling of sexual harassment cases.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u2022 &lt;strong&gt;NCAA tournament: Can Kansas navigate through the South?&lt;/strong&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hufnagel\u2019s firing comes just one week after UC Berkeley Law School dean Sujit Choudhry resigned after a sex harassment lawsuit alleged that he hugged, kissed and touched his assistant repeatedly during 2014 and 2015. Choudhry will continue to be paid by the university and may still teach. Earlier in the year, the school also warned astronomer Geoff Marcy about sexually harassing female students before he resigned.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Last year, former Cal vice chancellor Graham Fleming was forced from his job following a sex harassment scandal.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;No. 4 seed Cal is set to take on No. 13 seed Hawaii in the first round of the NCAA tournament on Friday.\r\n&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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