A number of student-athletes have received intense scrutiny after a series of high-profile accusations — among them the former Stanford swimmer, Brock Turner, whose sentence of six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman in 2015 was denounced by critics as too lenient and touched off protests across the country.

More recently, the president of Baylor University, Kenneth W. Starr, and the football coach, Art Briles, lost their positions after a damning university-commissioned report on the handling of several accusations and convictions of sex crimes levied against Baylor football players.

In Minnesota, the complaint leading to the restraining order accused the players Carlton Djam, Tamarion Johnson, Ray Buford, Dior Johnson and KiAnte Hardin of sexually assaulting the woman on Sept. 2 at an apartment near campus. Hardin, Buford, Johnson and Johnson each served a three-game suspension from the team while the Hennepin County district attorney’s office investigated.

None of the five were arrested or charged.

“There is insufficient admissible evidence for prosecutors to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that either force was used, or that the victim was physically helpless as defined by law in a sexual encounter,” the prosecutor’s office said in a statement earlier this month.

A restraining order against a sixth player was dropped Monday night. All six were in court Tuesday morning and sat quietly in the gallery.

Legal experts said that while the case represented a new approach from an accuser on a campus unsatisfied with the outcome of a criminal investigation, such restraining orders are commonplace among people who feel threatened.

“The circumstances are novel,” Douglas E. Fierberg, a lawyer who specializes in issues on college campuses, including sexual assault and hazing, said of the restraining order. “But on a day-to-day-basis, assailants who are deemed threats to other people are prevented from going to the place where they work, or live or where they study. I could care less that it’s a football stadium. I don’t believe football players are entitled to any more legal rights than anyone else has.”