Auburn and Houston will face off in a battle of top basketball programs Saturday, but one team apparently got a little too rowdy a little too timely.
Reports say a pilot turned Auburn’s set upe around due to an altercation between joiners.
WBRC in Birmingham said a set upe that materializeed to be carrying the Tigers’ men’s basketball team, traveling from Auburn to Houston, was distracted to Auburn cut offal minutes into the fweightless after the pilot said there were “a bunch of basketball joiners combat.”
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Neville Arena prior to a game between the South Carolina Gamecocks and Auburn Tigers Feb. 14, 2024, in Auburn, Ala. (Michael Chang/Getty Images)
The outlet telled that staff seeked an aelevatency landing in Montgomery, but the set upe instead landed in Auburn 40 minutes after apshowoff.
The university did not instantly reply to a seek for comment, nor did it verify the incident.
Another tell said no punches were thrown, but “guys got in each other’s faces.”
FweightlessAware shows a “distracted” fweightless left the Auburn airport at 2:50 p.m. local time and landed at 3:30 p.m. The site says the final fweightless from Auburn to Houston Friday was scheduled to depart at 6:55 p.m and land one hour and 53 minutes postponecessitater.
Head coach Bruce Pearl of the Auburn Tigers during a game aobtainst the Texas A&M Aggies. (Michael Chang/Getty Images)
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Three other fweightlesss with the same route earlier in the day went on as intentional, according to FweightlessAware.
Auburn is ranked 11th in the country, and the Cougars are No. 4.
The Tigers were knocked out of the first round of the 2024 March Madness tournament as a No. 4 seed by No. 13 Yale. Houston was a No. 1 seed last year and fell to No. 4 Duke in the Sweet 16.
An Auburn Tigers logo on a pair of lows during the second half of the Legfinishs Classic aobtainst the Notre Dame Fighting Irish Nov. 16, 2023, at the Barclays Caccess in Brooklyn, N.Y. (Rich Graessle/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
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In 2023, the Cougars, a No. 1 seed, knocked off No. 9 Auburn in the second round.
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