{"id":1588,"date":"2025-07-17T02:15:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T02:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/1588\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T02:15:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T02:15:13","slug":"auburn-basketball-star-arrested-saturday-on-dui-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/1588\/","title":{"rendered":"Auburn Basketball Star Arrested Saturday On DUI Charge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Auburn Basketball Star Arrested Saturday On DUI Charge<\/a> originally appeared on The Spun<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One of Auburn<\/a>‘s top players has reportedly run into some legal trouble this weekend.<\/p>\n

According to Myron Medcalf of ESPN.com<\/a>, Tigers star Tahaad Pettiford was arrested and jailed early Saturday morning for driving under the influence of alcohol in the same county as the school’s campus.<\/p>\n

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Pettiford, a 19-year-old sophomore, projects to be a leading contender for SEC Player of the Year next season after averaging 11.6 points and a team-leading 3.0 assists per game in his first year under Bruce Pearl on the 32-6 Tigers.<\/p>\n

The Jersey City native initially declared for the 2025 NBA Draft before choosing to withdraw and return to school a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n

“I was happy to go through the process, getting feedback from NBA teams,” Pettiford said<\/a> at the time. “Going back to Auburn is a better situation for me. I see myself being a higher pick next year. It wasn’t 100% this year, so I didn’t want to take that chance.”<\/p>\n

Coach Pearl also released a statement on Pettiford’s situation Saturday. Saying in a release:\u00a0“We are aware of the situation, and we will handle it internally with Tahaad and his family. We take these matters seriously and will learn and grow from it moving forward.”<\/p>\n

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Apr 5, 2025; San Antonio, TX, USA; Auburn Tigers guard Tahaad Pettiford (0) warms up before a semifinal of the men’s 2025 NCAA tournament at Alamodome. Mandatory Credit: Bob Donnan-Imagn Images\u00a9 Bob Donnan-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

The Tigers point guard was reportedly released from jail around noon ET and is no longer listed as an inmate in Lee County’s jail log.<\/p>\n

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It’s unclear right now what this will mean for his playing time when the college basketball season tips-off this winter.<\/p>\n

Related: Hugh Freeze Refuses To Apologize For ‘Controversial’ Hobby<\/a><\/p>\n

Auburn Basketball Star Arrested Saturday On DUI Charge<\/a> first appeared on The Spun on Jul 12, 2025<\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by The Spun<\/a> on Jul 12, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Auburn Basketball Star Arrested Saturday On DUI Charge originally appeared on The Spun. One of Auburn‘s top players…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[438],"tags":[1431,2202,461,2203,49,48,2206,551,547,550,2207,2204,525,530,532,531,2205,82,2201,1432],"class_list":["post-1588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaab","tag-auburn","tag-auburn-tigers","tag-basketball","tag-bruce-pearl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-coach-pearl","tag-college","tag-college-basketball","tag-collegebasketball","tag-driving-under-the-influence-of-alcohol","tag-myron-medcalf","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaab","tag-ncaabasketball","tag-saturday-morning","tag-sports","tag-tahaad-pettiford","tag-tigers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}