{"id":434661,"date":"2024-11-08T20:02:50","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T01:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/?post_type=article&#038;p=434661"},"modified":"2024-11-08T20:17:02","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T01:17:02","slug":"auburn-basketball-forced-to-turn-around-mid-flight-due-to-reported-altercation","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/auburn-football\/auburn-basketball-forced-to-turn-around-mid-flight-due-to-reported-altercation\/","title":{"rendered":"Auburn basketball reportedly forced to turn around mid-flight due to altercation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Auburn&#8217;s men&#8217;s basketball team had to return home mid-flight after an altercation between multiple players broke out on the plane, according to multiple reports.<\/p>\n<p>College basketball insider Jeff Goodman reports that Auburn was about 45 minutes into its flight to Houston on Friday afternoon when pilots turned the plane around due to &#8220;horseplay between players on the flight that could have escalated into a fight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Goodman added that Auburn is expected to take another flight to Houston later in the evening on Friday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Auburn plane returned back home due to horseplay between players on the flight that could have escalated into a fight, source told <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheFieldOf68?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TheFieldOf68<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Auburn was about 45 minutes en route and had to return home. Source said they are expected to take another plane to Houston later\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jeff Goodman (@GoodmanHoops) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GoodmanHoops\/status\/1855040394746089947?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 9, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>At this time, there are no other confirmed details regarding this incident. It&#8217;s also unclear if any players will receive disciplinary action. Auburn has not released any official statement on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Auburn basketball has very high expectations for the 2024-25 season. The Tigers are currently the No. 11 team in the country, per the latest AP Top 25.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce Pearl&#8217;s squad is set to face off against another elite program in Houston on Saturday afternoon. The Cougars are ranked No. 4 in the AP poll this week.<\/p>\n<p>Tipoff is set for 9:30 p.m. ET on Saturday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Auburn&#8217;s men&#8217;s basketball program had an incident on its flight to Houston on Friday, per multiple reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":356456,"featured_media":416589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","tags":[],"class_list":["post-434661","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_types-news","series_tags-hoops","teams-auburn-football"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/434661"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/356456"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}