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Brown University basketball coach charged with assaulting her husband

Sarah Behn, coach of the women's basketball team, was arraigned Monday on a charge of assault and battery.

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Outside of Brown University's campus. Gretchen Ertl / The Boston Globe

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The women’s basketball coach at Brown University has been charged with assaulting her husband.

Sarah Behn was arraigned Monday on a charge of assault and battery on a family or household member, according to Wrentham District Court.

The Providence Journal reports a police report filed in Foxboro, Massachusetts, says Timothy McGahan, Behn’s husband, told officers she pushed him and pinned him against a wall.

Behn’s attorney, Jerome Sweeney, says Behn denies that and it’s a private matter.

The report says Behn told officers McGahan yelled at her mother and she intervened to push him away. It says she said they’re getting divorced.

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Behn became head coach in 2014. Brown says it doesn’t discuss employees outside the context of their jobs.

Behn was a star player at Boston College from 1989 to 1993.