Former Michigan State player and undergraduate assistant coach Travis Walton issued a statement Tuesday denying the "Outside the Lines" report that said he sexually assaulted a woman and punched another while in East Lansing.

ESPN's report Friday alleges that in April 2010 Walton and two other basketball players were accused of raping a woman, and that a few months earlier he was accused of punching another woman at a bar.

On Tuesday, Walton said all the allegations are false and that he "will defend (himself) to the extent that the law allows."

"I have never been charged with sexual assault and, to my knowledge, the alleged sexual assault was never reported to Michigan State University or the police. My encounters with this woman were more than just a single occasion, and my actions with her were always consensual," Walton said.

After the allegations came to light, the Clippers placed Walton on administrative leave. He is an assistant coach for the team's G League affiliate in Ontario, Calif.

A letter from a former sexual assault counselor at Michigan State, Lauren Allswede, was obtained by "Outside the Lines." She wrote to university administrators about the reported rape after the alleged victim came forward when she heard the three players had attempted something similar with another student.

Allswede said that then-athletic director Mark Hollis met with the girl's parents and that he discussed the incident with the basketball team, but that "not much" could be done. No players were punished for the incident.

Allswede said in her letter that Walton was fired, but Walton also denied that. He said he was "never hired nor fired" from the school and that he was back on campus in January 2010 to finish his degree. He was described as an undergraduate assistant at the time.

Walton also was accused of punching a woman at a bar after she said she rebuffed his advances. Ashley Thompson said he struck her across the face, knocking her off her bar stool.

Charges related to the incident were later dismissed and replaced with a plea deal for a littering charge when contradicting eyewitness accounts came to light.

"I never physically assaulted a woman at an East Lansing establishment, as alleged. While conversing with her, and without notice or provocation, she threw a drink at me, and I subsequently left the establishment," Walton wrote. "Two written statements from independent, objective witnesses were given to the City Attorney, and support my innocence."

Michigan State officials and coach Tom Izzo have declined to comment about Walton since ESPN published its "Outside the Lines" report.