The team subsequently released a statement saying that it “supports a healthy, safe and respectful campus climate where all students can flourish.”

The subject of campus sexual assault received new national prominence five years ago when the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights highlighted the applicability of Title IX, the federal law mandating gender equity in higher education, to sexual violence. Some of the national discourse since then has focused attention on whether athletes in prominent sports receive more lenient treatment.

As the complaint noted, the conversation on campus sexual assault has been particularly contentious at Yale. Last year, a study by the Association of American Universities found that nearly one in four undergraduate women at a large group of leading universities said they had been sexually assaulted — and pegged Yale’s rates as higher than the average found at the 27 colleges.

In part, the lawsuit reiterated a statement from Montague’s lawyer in March, when he asserted that Montague and his accuser, a woman whose name has not been made public, had had a prior sexual relationship that included one instance of consensual intercourse, and that she later returned to Montague’s bedroom with him on the evening in October 2014 when she said the assault had occurred.

The accuser said that she did not consent to sexual intercourse, tried to communicate this verbally and, according to an impartial fact-finder, “pushed him, but not very forcefully,” the complaint said.

Montague, who had several drinks that night, was not aware that the woman did not consent, according to the complaint.