The No. 11 Auburn Tigers are 1-0 on the younger school basketball season, however an early distraction has already surfaced.
Per ESPN’s Jeff Borzello, a “scuffle” broke out between two gamers on the workforce’s flight to Houston, Texas, on Friday.
In-flight audio obtained by WBRC’s Jonathan Hardison allegedly exhibits a pilot telling air visitors controllers “we had two gamers that obtained right into a bodily altercation, garments had been ripped.”
The aircraft was rotated and landed again in Auburn.
A alternative flight obtained the Tigers males’s basketball workforce to its vacation spot Friday night time because it prepares to tackle the No. 4 Houston Cougars on Saturday.
Per ESPN, Auburn College officers didn’t return requests for touch upon the state of affairs.
The Tigers opened their season with a dominant 94-43 win over the Vermont Catamounts.
They need to put their disappointing 2024 NCAA Event look far within the rearview mirror. Auburn was shockingly eradicated within the first spherical 78-76 by the Yale Bulldogs.