A lawyer for Jack Montague, the former captain of the Yale men’s basketball team who was recently expelled on charges of sexual misconduct, has released a statement disputing those charges and calling his expulsion “excessive by any rational measure.” Claiming that Montague has been used as a “whipping boy” to dispel…
In an email reporters around 5 PM on Wednesday, Yale assistant director for sports publicity Tim Bennett shared a statement from the men’s basketball team, which has recently come under fire for publicly supporting expelled team captain Jack Montague amid rumors of sexual assault.
The Yale men’s basketball team, facing controversy over various public displays of support for expelled team captain Jack Montague, has signaled a continuation of that support following their win against Columbia on Saturday.
Early Monday morning, posters were seen at the entrance of Payne Whitney Gymnasium and on bulletin boards around Yale University’s campus that read “Yale Men’s Basketball: Stop Supporting a Rapist.”
