An Oral Roberts University assistant coach said...

An Oral Roberts University assistant coach said that reports of National Collegiate Athletic Assn. violations reported in the Dallas Morning News are not true.

The paper reported Saturday that basketball players drove coach’s cars, billed the university for a $1,200 beer party and that a former player’s mother has been living in student housing for the past three years.

“This thing is so ridiculous, it’s absurd,� assistant coach Dave Pritchett said.

Three former assistants, five former players and three former athletic department employees were quoted by the News as saying that between August 1985 and April 1987, players charged $50,000 to university telephone credit cards and received prepaid plane tickets and cash from Pritchett.