Auburn basketball team shows the wrong kind of fight on trip to Houston

Mar 31, 2019; Kansas City, MO, United States; Auburn Tigers head coach Bruce Pearl reacts against the Kentucky Wildcats during the first half in the championship game of the midwest regional of the 2019 NCAA Tournament at Sprint Center. Mandatory Credit: Jay Biggerstaff-USA TODAY Sports ORG XMIT: USATSI-401082 ORIG FILE ID: 20190331_jel_ba4_055.jpg

The Auburn basketball team’s flight to Houston for a showdown between the No. 11 Tigers and No. 4 Cougars barely made it the 55 miles to Montgomery, Alabama when it abruptly started heading back to campus on Friday night.

Reportedly, a scuffle had broken out among unnamed players in the cabin and head coach Bruce Pearl did not hesitate to turn this plane around.

The flight map is pretty wild. The audio between the air traffic controllers and the cockpit of Auburn’s plane is even more bizarre. You can hear the pilot struggle to describe exactly what happened as he tells the tower the flight deck is secure amid a “passenger disturbance.”

CBS Sports reports the incident involved freshman forward Jahki Howard and senior forward Ja’Heim Hudson.

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NEW: Flight that appears to be the Auburn men’s basketball team heading to Houston diverted back to Auburn this afternoon. Air Traffic Control audio we’ve obtained shows a pilot in that airspace telling ATC “we have a bunch of basketball players fighting”
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Both Howard and Hudson were reportedly barred from getting on Auburn’s second flight to Houston on Friday night and will not rejoin the team for Saturday evening’s game, according to CBS Sports. The two bench players each saw at least 15 minutes of action in Auburn’s season-opening victory against Vermont.

We’ll learn more about what exactly occurred when Pearl and Auburn meet with the media after facing the Cougars.

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Publish date : 2024-11-09 19:22:00

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