Former Nebraska women’s basketball assistant Chuck Love acknowledged he had sex with player Ashley Scoggin before she was kicked off the team in 2022, according to court documents tied to a civil lawsuit she filed two years later.
Scoggin played two seasons for the Nebraska Cornhuskers before being dismissed on the same day Love was suspended with pay in February 2022. He resigned three months later.
The Cornhuskers guard, who eventually transferred to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, was kicked off the team a few days after teammates discovered her, fully clothed, in Love’s room during a road trip.
Scoggin’s lawsuit, filed in 2024, contends her civil rights were violated in the lead-up to her dismissal. She seeks a jury trial in Lincoln and unspecified damages.
She described in her original complaint how Love took a special interest in her and that the relationship turned sexual and caused her to fear retaliation if she refused to engage in it.
Love, in his initial response to the lawsuit, denied ever having a sexual relationship with Scoggin. Yet court documents allege he has since admitted as such.
Former Nebraska women’s basketball assistant Chuck Love (pictured) acknowledged he had sex with player Ashley Scoggin before she was dismissed by the team in 2022
Scoggin filed a civil lawsuit against Love and Nebraska officials in 2024 over the sex scandal
Maren Chaloupka, Scoggin’s attorney, wrote in a March 17 filing: ‘At his February 5, 2026 deposition, Love for the first time admitted that he had a sexual relationship with Ashley.’
Chaloupka wrote that the university’s Board of Regents, head coach Amy Williams and former athletic director Trev Alberts – all named as co-defendants – ‘endorsed his denial.’
USA Today on Tuesday was first to report Love’s admission in the court document. The Daily Mail has approached Denise Frost, Love’s attorney, for comment.
Love also initially denied Scoggin’s claims that he sought sexual relationships with students, discussed inappropriate topics with her and invited her to go out for drinks.
His alleged relationship with Scoggin culminated in a bizarre chain of events at a team hotel before a game at Penn State, when team members and practice players created a ruse to confirm and videotape her presence in his hotel room.
A male practice player falsely represented himself to the desk clerk as Love to obtain a duplicate room key. Two team members confronted Scoggin in Love’s room. They reported their findings and showed the video to head coach Williams.
Williams and Alberts, now the athletic director at Texas A&M, are accused of not setting rules, training or policies prohibiting staff members from having sexual relationships with athletes.
The regents, Williams and Alberts said in their joint response to the civil lawsuit that they didn’t have ‘sufficient information and belief to either admit or deny the allegations’ of a sexual relationship between Scoggin and Love.
The university, in its initial response to the lawsuit, said Scoggin’s removal from the team was warranted, in part, because of ‘dishonesty and distrust’ between her and her teammates.
