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Four-star point guard Labaron Philon has committed to Auburn Andrew Stefaniak 2–3 minutes Auburn has landed its second commit this week in four-star point guard Labaron Philon. Philon is a big guard standing six-foot-four, 177 pounds, and is an in-state recruit from Mobile. He is Auburn's third commit of the 2024 class, joining Peyton Marshall and Tahaad Pettiford. Auburn beat out some big-name schools like Kansas, Alabama, Tennessee, and Arkansas to land Philon. While Philon might not be a five-star now, you can expect time to bring that coveted fifth star. Philon plays the game with a lot of swagger, which is something Auburn fans love to see. He can do all three main things point guards are asked to do; distribute the basketball, get to the rim, and shoot. His six-foot-four frame also helps him to be a lockdown defender. Philon is going to smother smaller guards at the next level. Philon is not your prototypical Bruce Pearl guard since he is so tall. As Auburn fans, we are used to seeing Jared Harper, Sharife Cooper, and Wendell Green Jr. All of these guards have one thing in common, they aren't very tall. Philon is a great player who has a ton of upside. Needless to say, he is going to be a blast to watch in Neville Arena. Coach Pearl isn't done recruiting this 2024 class which means when it is all said and done, this class could be scary.

What Rick Barnes said about loss to Florida, hosting Auburn Ben McKee 10–13 minutes Manage Join Tennessee head basketball coach Rick Barnes met with the media on Friday afternoon to review the loss to Florida and preview Saturday's game against Auburn. Here's everything Barnes had to say. On bouncing back from the Florida game: “Well, I hope so. We look at what we do after every game. I don’t think anybody is happy with the way we played at Florida. This league is good. It is hard to win. It is hard to win in any league. The fact is we didn’t play our best basketball. We got beat and we are going to have to play the next game, (which) always looms big. Whether you win or lose, the next one is a big one. You guys know that. We are going to have to play better. We are going to have to take care of some of the mental breakdowns we had in the game to be able to win any more games the rest of the year. You look at the rest of our schedule, it is only going to get tougher and tougher starting with Auburn on Saturday afternoon. Bruce (Pearl) has done what he has always does, a terrific job with this team. He is going to get the most out of them every year. As hard as the play. Knows what they are going to look for and the different matchups he is going to try and seek out. We are going to have to be on edge and know that we have to play better.” On the mental breakdowns: “There was more defensively. We have won games — we had some really good shots that didn’t go in, but that is part of the game. We can’t let that affect what we do on the defensive end. When we got the lead in the game, we didn’t do what we needed to do on the defensive end. That is what let the game get away from us. There were some defensive breakdowns that we can’t have.” On if he is surprised by a bad game after a good game: “I don’t think I am surprised. I don’t. I think it is really hard to be a great basketball team because young people today have a lot of distractions that can come their way. If you are not on top of it as much as we try to be, but still there is a lot of things going on out there. For some guys, being where we are, they have worked hard to get us here. But it is hard to not only get here, but is hard to stay here and it is really hard to stay here night in and night out. To do that, you have to have a state of mind to where you can stay focused one day at a time and never ever ever take somebody for granted and think it is going to be easy. I don’t care who you play. It is not easy. We have got to do a better job. I can tell you am I surprised? I am not. I have had teams that have gone through and had some that have handled it a little bit better. I don’t think I’ve ever had one that handled all perfectly.” On the team meetings on Thursday: “We talked about what we do, mainly defensively. That is what, again, we can talk about our shots. We had opportunities there to shoot the ball. But we can’t let the fact that we missed open shots at time affect us on the defensive end. That is really the crux of what it got down to. We fought back into the game after we got off to a poor start with some defensive breakdowns. We fought back in. Once we got the lead, give them credit. They fought back. For whatever reason, we weren’t as sharp as we needed to be on the defensive end.” On how he felt like they defended Colin Castleton and how that prepares them for Auburn’s Johni Broome: “I don’t think we defended him as well as we needed to. He’s a really good basketball player and we knew going in that not only is he a guy that they look to score but they look for him to facilitate a lot and he’s a terrific player. We weren’t disciplined enough. Every time we reached he made us pay and we should be, by now, too experienced to reach on a guy like that because good players, good teams, if you try to go for gambles and steals and you don’t come up with them they’re going to make you pay and I thought he did that.” On the importance of knowing what you’re getting from Julian Phillips and Tyreke Key night in and night out: “I think it’s important with every guy. You know, some nights you miss shots. You can live with that but I think the key with not just those two guys but everybody, the fact that they will take shots when they’re there and on the other end we’ve got to know night-in and night-out from every guy that we’re going to get their best effort and obviously they’re focused on the defensive end and just on offense we execute, like the other night we got as high of quality of shots. We didn’t make the shots, but we’ve won games that we didn’t make shots. We won a game against the University of Maryland where we shot 29% and had games where we haven’t shot well but we’ve won them because we’ve defended for the most part. We didn’t do that the other night.” On what needs to happen for Julian Phillips to be more consistent offensively: “I think it’s a mindset on his part too. Understanding but it’s not that we want to put the whole load on him. We talked to him about being aggressive and understanding how we need him to play and the other night it showed up, I think he only had four shots but he got to the free throw line and we need him to continue to do that but I would, whether it’s him or Olivier, anybody on our team. You look at everybody’s gameplan, it has been all year, will continue to be until we make them do otherwise, is they’re going to work hard at taking away our perimeter game and have us put the ball inside with our post guys and our post guys are going to have to give us something and it may not necessarily be a shot. It might just be playing inside out but people are certainly concerned about the perimeter guys so we need, whether it’s Julian or Tyreke or whoever, Josiah, we need those guys — Uros, Jonas, Tobe — we need those guys to help us.” On if making twos is more important than making threes: “I think it’s all important. You want good quality shots. You don’t get many great shots in college basketball when you play against high quality teams. They’re going to guard, they’re going to take things away and like we try to work hard at running people off the three-point line. Other teams will do the same thing to us so if you can get some rim shots. Some midrange shots— we believe in the midrange game. Some people don’t. We do but we had some of those shots the other night that we didn’t make but those are shots we practice and believe in, but they’re all important.” On how difficult it is for freshmen to balance being aggressive, but not feeling like they need to start carrying the load: “I think it’s a balance, but we’re not asking (Julian Phillips) to carry the load. We’re not. We’re asking — we’ve got a group of guys that we think that certainly we can spread it around. But it goes back to consistency. That’s what it goes back to. It’s not so much about Julian or one carrying the load. We just need consistency and balance from guys each and every game that we know what we’re going to get.” On the balance of trying to get people to matchup with him with their lineups as opposed to matching what they’re doing: “That’s what I think is great about this team. Is that we can do that. We did it the other night. We saw that we had started out the way we’ve been playing when we went to the bigger lineup and it goes back to defensively, we’re not going to get away from who we are on the defensive end. That’s what we’ve built this team on and it goes back to can we guard the way we need to guard. We did a decent job, but when we got the lead, we didn’t do a very good job. That was the difference in the game. We work hard with our post guys trying to guard a lot of different people, but the other night, we were just too undisciplined in the post and (Colin) Castleton took advantage of it.” On Auburn: “What Bruce does with his team every year is that he’s going to take the pieces that he’s got and put the puzzles together and I think he’s done it again this year. They’re certainly a different team, but every year he’s going to take what he’s got and get guys playing at a high level. They’re going to play hard, they’re going to execute what they want him to do. They are a team that get going, they’re explosive, they get down and they’re going to keep grinding away with it. But he does a great job year in and year out with whatever pieces he has. He’s going to put them together.” On only having seven assists the other night: “You miss open shots, you don’t get assists. Gotta make shots. Those midrange shots were all passes that we didn’t make.” On the toughness of the SEC: “Every game you play and it’s not just us. It’s everybody. Everybody has an opportunity every night to do something to get themselves in position. February is a month where everybody is fighting to secure something in the postseason. It’s not just us. Everybody has something to play for. You’ve got to be ready to play every single night. I don’t think there’s a team in the country that if they’re not ready to play, they can’t get beat this year. That’s the one thing we’ve seen in college basketball up until right now. You’ve got to be on top of it and if you’re not, you’re going to lose.” 1COMMENTS On if he prefers college basketball going to a 24-second shot clock: “No, I think the 30-second clock is a great clock for college basketball. I think the 24 is a little bit too difficult for college players to play with. People don’t realize how hard it is to play with a 24-second clock. The fact that we’ve got 30, it’s right for our game.” ">247Sports

Auburn's Chance Westry faces 'very real possibility' of a medical redshirt Published: Feb. 03, 2023, 8:00 a.m. 5–6 minutes Four-star Auburn freshman Chance Westry is potentially headed for a medical redshirt this season. Bruce Pearl was asked Thursday night about the status of Westry, who hasn’t appeared in a game since Jan. 4 at Georgia, during the coach’s weekly appearance on the “Tiger Talk” radio show. According to Pearl, Auburn has shut Westry down for the season due to a lingering right knee issue, and as a result, there’s a possibility the 6-foot-6 guard/wing will redshirt this season. “Listen, he had surgery, he came back, and he just couldn’t really move on that thing, wasn’t the same player as he was before,” Pearl said. “So, yes, we did shut him down. It’s a very, very real possibility that he could redshirt this year.” Read more Auburn basketball: Auburn to play in 2024 Maui Invitational, per report Bruce Pearl saw Allen Flanigan’s season-best performance against Georgia coming Auburn lands five-star 2024 point guard Tahaad Pettiford For a player to qualify for a medical redshirt under NCAA rules, a player’s injury must occur before the second half of a team’s season, and he must have competed in less than 30 percent of a team’s games. Westry has played in 11 games this season after missing the first two games after undergoing preseason knee surgery. Auburn has 31 games on its regular-season slate, and while that means Westry will have appeared in approximately 35 percent of the Tigers’ regular-season games, Auburn will have postseason games in the SEC Tournament and likely the NCAA Tournament. That 30 percent threshold appears to be why Westry’s redshirt is still considered a “very, very real possibility” and not a lock at this point. The versatile guard/wing is one of three true freshmen on Auburn’s roster this year after signing with the Tigers as part of their 2022 class. Westry was rated as the No. 39 overall player in the country coming out of high school, and upon arriving at Auburn, he quickly established himself as one of the team’s top playmakers this summer during the program’s overseas tour of Israel. However, he injured his knee during the preseason, reaggravating a prior injury in which “his kneecap kind of dislocates,” according to Pearl. After first attempting to rehab it for nearly a month to no avail, Westry opted to undergo arthroscopic surgery on Oct. 6 — the same day Pearl had a similar procedure done on his knee. Renowned orthopedic surgeon Dr. James Andrews performed the procedures, with Westry projected to miss 3-4 weeks before being cleared to return. His return took a bit longer than that, with the freshman making his long-anticipated debut almost six weeks later against Winthrop on Nov. 15 at Neville Arena. Westry appeared in each of the Tigers’ ensuing 10 games, including the first two in SEC play against Florida and Georgia — though he recorded just one minute of action in each of his last three appearances off the bench, as he struggled to return to form after missing much of the preseason. He averaged just 2.5 points and one assist in 9.5 minutes per game while shooting just 31.6 percent from the floor during his 11 appearances. “Chance Westry offensively was, if not the, one of our best guards this summer,” Pearl said Jan. 13. “So, he did a great job coming in, did a great job as a freshman. Then the very beginning of the semester, he hurts his knee…. He comes back, and maybe I make the mistake of trying to play him at some point guard, but that was where there may have only been 10 minutes a game, and he wasn’t ready. He’s more ready now, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to put him in right now. It’s just hard to miss all that time, miss all those reps, and then I’m going to put him in right now in the middle of the SEC? “So, Chance has done nothing wrong. He’s done a lot of things right. I have not lost one ounce of confidence, and I’m confident that in a year from now, he’ll be one of our better players. But unless something dramatic changes with our roster, I just think I need to protect him from being out there where the guys have had so many more repetitions, it’s just not fair.” While Westry’s injury has certainly been disappointing for the freshman and a tough blow for Auburn this season, Pearl’s expressed confidence in Westry’s long-term outlook and the support from within the program has the freshman maintaining perspective throughout the ordeal. “Just keep going,” Westry said in a Q&A posted to Auburn’s team site on Jan. 16. “You’re going to have ups and downs. You can’t have a great story without ups and downs. I know I’m going to have my ups and I know I’m going to have my downs, but at the end, it’s going to be a great story.” Tom Green is an Auburn beat reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Tomas_Verde. If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation.

Auburn vs Tennessee Prediction, College Basketball Game Preview By Pete Fiutak | February 4, 2023 12:33 am CT ~3 minutes Auburn vs Tennessee prediction, game preview, odds, how to watch. Saturday, February 4 Auburn vs Tennessee How To Watch Date: Saturday, February 4 Game Time: 2:00 ET Venue: Thompson-Boling Arena, Knoxville, TN How To Watch: ESPN Record: Auburn (17-5), Tennessee (18-4) – Sign up and live stream college football on ESPN+ AP Poll, All-Time College Basketball Rankings Coaches Poll, All-Time College Basketball Rankings College Football All-Time Rankings Coaches Poll | AP Poll – Contact/Follow @ColFootballNews & @PeteFiutak Auburn vs Tennessee Game Preview Why Auburn Will Win The defense continues to be terrific from the outside, and overall the team is built to hold up in defensive fights. It’s great on the offensive boards, the D is aggressive enough to force just enough mistakes to get on the move, and stopping the Vols from getting the offense going shouldn’t be a problem. Auburn is 12-0 when teams fail to hit 30% from three, and 15-1 when keeping teams to 36% or under. Tennessee has only gone past that eight times and it’s going to struggle to get the O going here, but … Why Tennessee Will Win The Vol defense is a killer. It’s second in the nation in scoring defense and No. 1 in field goal percentage D. For all of the good things Auburn does, it’s not great at coming up with points from the outside and it’s not anything special on the free throw line. In a game where scoring every point will be like pulling teeth, the little things will matter. The defense is the star, but the offense is a huge help by not giving it up in bunches. Auburn is 13-1 when forcing 12 or more takeaways, and the Vols haven’t been that sloppy all that often at home. What’s Going To Happen Don’t expect a whole slew of points. Auburn will be great on the boards and will hang with Tennessee punch for punch, but it’ll come down to hitting that key three to push ahead. The home side will get that – and hit a few more free throws – to get out in a fun one. Auburn vs Tennessee Prediction, Line Tennessee 66, Auburn 63 Line: Tennessee -9.5, o/u: 134.5 ATS Confidence out of 5: 3 Must See Ranking: 4 – Predictions and lines for every Saturday game Coaches Poll, All-Time College Basketball Rankings 1950s | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s AP Poll, All-Time College Basketball Rankings 1950s | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s College Football All-Time Rankings Coaches Poll | AP Poll

Auburn vs. Tennessee: Stream, injury report, broadcast info for Saturday's game in Knoxville Taylor Jones 2–3 minutes Auburn plays Tennessee on Saturday in Knoxville, and if you’re wondering how you can watch the action live, you’ve come to the right place. The No. 23 Auburn Tigers bounced back from a two-game losing streak by defeating Georgia on Wednesday, 94-73. Allen Flanigan posted his highest scoring output in two seasons by dropping 22 points to lead the team in points. Johni Broome also had the best performance of his Auburn career by scoring 19 points and pulling down 18 rebounds. Buy Tigers Tickets The No. 2 Volunteers dropped just their second SEC game of the season on Wednesday after Florida pulled off the 67-54 upset in Gainesville. Despite losing their most recent game, Auburn head coach Bruce Pearl feels that Tennessee will be Auburn’s “tallest task” to date. “Tennessee is the best defensive team in the country. Their numbers all speak to it as far as field goal percentage defense, their three-point percentage defense,” Pearl said. “In each of those categories, the Vols lead the SEC. They are No. 2 in the nation in scoring margin, plus 18 1/2 for all games. “They are very, very deep. They are very, very talented. They are well-coached. They are very physical. They are one of the best offensive rebounding teams in the country.” Below, you will find all of the information you need for Wednesday’s game in Auburn, including a how-to-watch guide, an injury report, and a projected starting five. Here’s when you should tune in to see the game: Date: Saturday, Feb. 4 Time: 1 p.m. CT TV Channel: ESPN Live Stream: fuboTV (watch here) Radio: Auburn Sports Network () John Reed-USA TODAY Sports Johni Broome Wendell Green Jr. Allen Flanigan The Tennessean Oliver Nkamhoua Santiago Vescovi Zakai Zeigler AUBURN Chance Westry Knee Out for season TENNESSEE No Injuries Reported AUBURN G Wendell Green Jr. G Zep Jasper F Allen Flanigan F Jaylin Williams F Johni Broome TENNESSEE G Joshua Jordan James G Santiago Vescovi G Zakai Ziegler F Oliver Nkamhoua F Julian Phillips

Top247 2024 QB Walker White commits to Auburn Steve Wiltfong ~4 minutes Little Rock (Ark.) Christian Academy Top247 2024 quarterback Walker White announced his commitment to Auburn on Friday afternoon during a live broadcast on the 247Sports YouTube Channel. The 6-foot-4, 218-pound White chose to play for Hugh Freeze and the Tigers over his other finalists in Baylor and Clemson. He also strongly considered the likes of Arkansas and at one point long-time leader Ole Miss. Tabbed by 247Sports as the nation’s No. 8 quarterback and No. 92 prospect overall, White visited The Plains in January and towards the end of his visit he got a chance to check out Jordan-Hare Stadium. “As soon as I stepped on that football field my heart (jumped),” White told 247Sports. “I said this is the place.” It was still the place following White’s future visits to Baylor and Clemson. Regardless of how great those trip were, they din’t give him the same feeling as the one he had spending the day at Auburn. “When I go to Auburn, I know I’ll be developed to my full potential,” White said. He’s excited to play for Freeze, offensive coordinator Philip Montgomery, quarterbacks coach Jesse Stone and the staff. “They are geniuses about offense and the quarterback position,” White stated. White added that he loved the vibe when he was on campus and in the football facility. “You can tell it’s very family oriented and the players enjoy being there and you could see the players getting extra workouts,” White said. “It was special to see the attitude on the team was an extra-work mentality.” As a junior White threw for nearly 2,000 yards and 25 touchdowns with another 837 rushing yards and 16 more scores. He is commit No. 3 for the Tigers in the 2024 class joining fellow four-stars in cornerbacks Jaden Lewis and A’Mon Lane. White reiterated to 247Sports what he said earlier in the week about how the entire Auburn staff welcomed him when they first walked through the door for his visit. His family loves the decision too. “I think I loved about Auburn what he does,” White’s father David told 247Sports. “The guys that are going to be in charge of developing him as a player, there are several of them and they’re all really good quarterback coaches. I think the quarterback room there coaching-wise is top notch. Being in the SEC West I love that. We’re going to be able to watch him play at a lot of places we love to watch games at. The new staff is so excited and so energetic and really believes Walker can be a big part of building on what they’re doing. They cast a vision for him personally how he would fit in the program personally and it resonated with Walker big time and I felt the same way.” White’s head coach Eric Cohu obviously loves the pickup for Auburn. 35COMMENTS “He’s one of the hardest-working players I’ve ever coached and he has got a professional work ethic, great character, solid young man,” Cohu said. “He’s a personality that does great leading in the locker room and on the field. Players love him. He’s well rounded. "He’s such a phenomenal athlete," Cohu continued. "He’s big, he’s strong, he’s fast. He’s a guy that is athletically can take over a game. He can obviously spin the ball really well. Game time, when you’re talking about someone that strong and fast, arm strength, he has made some phenomenal plays for us.” ">247Sports

Four-star 2024 QB Walker White commits to Auburn Field Level Media February 03, 2023 at 8:55 pm. Walker White, a four-star 2024 quarterback prospect, committed to Auburn on Friday. White, from Little Rock (Ark.) Christian Academy, is ranked as the No. 8 quarterback and the No. 92 overall prospect by 247Sports. He chose the Tigers over Baylor and Clemson. “As soon as I stepped on that football field my heart (jumped),” White told 247Sports about his January visit to Auburn. “I said this is the place.” The 6-foot-3, 215-pound White said he is excited to play for new head coach Hugh Freeze and his staff. “When I go to Auburn, I know I’ll be developed to my full potential,” White said. “They are geniuses about offense and the quarterback position,” he continued. In his junior season, White passed for nearly 2,000 yards and 25 touchdowns, per 247Sports. He added 837 rushing yards and 16 scores on the ground.

i think we will be monsters in basketball nexte year but i think this is gonna be kind of a down year. we play tennessee tomorrow and then bama i think so we are going to have our hands full. i just think we are going to struggle some. but maybe i anti jinxed the team and the hoo doo will fall on the teams we play. but i will say it is so refreshing to not having a losing season. i pray i am wrong about the upcoming struggles we will face. but make no mistake i love my tigers......................

when i was a rugrat it was a huge game and i remember the wreck tech parades with the players dressed in pajama's as well as the band. i remember turning my head and some dirty rascal playing the tuba snuck up to the curb and blasted his horn right in my ear. i bet i jumped ten feet and almost soiled myself lol. but it was so much fun and it seemed like everyone in auburn who was not working was at the parade. i do not remember any speeches or anything so i am not sure if they had those but i remember seeing some guys dressed up like women as well. it sure was a fun time at auburn and other than maybe having a great night singing on stage those memories of auburn was probably the best times of my life. would this be doable again? i am not sure folks now do not realize how big of a deal it was back then. i wish i could have seen tech have to walk the two or three miles they had to walk back to town after the tracks were greased. but having that parade again would be epic.

LSU closed nearly 300 reported sexual assaults without discipline in one year Chris Eberhart 8–10 minutes Nearly 300 sexual assaults that were reported to Louisiana State University between October 2021 and September 2022 were closed without disciplinary action, according to the university's latest reports reviewed by Fox News Digital. The university's handling of sexual assault accusations is under a microscope after sophomore Madison Brooks was fatally hit by a car after an alleged rape on Jan. 15, less than two years after a bombshell report by USA Today about LSU's mishandling of sexual assault cases. The newspaper's report, titled "LSU mishandled sexual misconduct complaints against students, including top athletes," was published in November 2020 and forced internal changes, including a voluminous report in 2021. But the university's most recent biannual reports on "power-based violence" suggest more work may need to be done. AS LSU REELS FROM MADISON BROOKS' ALLEGED RAPE AND DEATH, CRIME TORMENTS COLLEGE TOWN LSU student Madison Brooks was fatally hit by a car after an alleged rape on Jan. 15, 2023. There were 182 sexual assaults reported to LSU between Oct. 1, 2021, and March 3, 2022, and 126 reported sexual assaults between April 1, 2022, and Sept. 30, 2022, according to the reports. READ ON THE FOX NEWS APP Of the 308 total cases, 282 didn't result in any disciplinary action, and more than 80% were closed for three reasons: "complainant not responsive to outreach," "complainant requested supportive measures only" or the "complainant requested no further action." MADISON BROOKS: TIMELINE OF LSU STUDENT'S ALLEGED RAPE, DEATH Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on Jan. 25, 2023. Madison Brooks attended LSU when she was hit and killed by a car on Jan. 15, 2023. "The overwhelming majority of survivors choose a path that does not include a formal investigation," the November 2022 report says. "The most common paths that survivors take are to not respond to outreach from the Office of Civil Rights & Title IX, respond but ask that the office take no further action on the report or to request supportive measures only which are available regardless of whether the survivor wishes to file a formal complaint." MADISON BROOKS' FAMILY 'BLOWN AWAY' BY CLAIMS LSU STUDENT 'WOULD NOT HAVE COMPLAINED' ABOUT ALLEGED RAPE Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on Jan. 25, 2023. Madison Brooks attended LSU when she was hit and killed by a car on Jan. 15, 2023. The April 2022 report said, "Our data indicate a minority of complainants want to engage in the arduous task of moving through the Title IX process." "Additionally, we can assume, based on data from national surveys, that a small percentage of students and employees who experience some type of sexual assault, harassment or other forms of sexual misconduct file an incident report with the Title IX office. We know these are national problems." Madison Brooks is remembered after she was fatally hit by a car following an alleged rape in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on Jan. 15, 2023. Title IX is a 1972 federal civil rights law that protects people from discrimination based on sex in education programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance. Sex-based crimes and incidents are included under the umbrella of LSU's Title IX Office, which was revamped by Husch Blackwell's 2021 report in response to the USA Today investigation. MADISON BROOKS DIED FROM ‘TRAUMATIC INJURIES’ AFTER GOOD SAMARITANS TRIED TO SAVE HER LSU spokesperson Abbi Rocha Laymoun said in an email to Fox News Digital that there have been "significant improvements to our Title IX operations and processes," and each sexual assault survivor's healing journey is different. "Some wish to file a criminal or Title IX complaint, others want health and mental health resources and still others are focused on academic support to help them remain successful in the classroom," Laymoun said. "Our philosophy is to listen to survivors and empower them to decide which resources they want and when. Our focus is on the survivor … The office continues to review processes and monitor any potential barriers to reporting while empowering survivors to make the choice that is right for them." SUSPECT IN LSU STUDENT MADISON BROOKS' ALLEGED RAPE CHARGED IN ALLEGED 2020 SEX ASSAULT The formal process of a sexual assault investigation includes interviews of all parties and witnesses, a formal report and a hearing with cross-examination, she said. "Many survivors do not wish to share their experience in those ways," Laymoun said. "A formal resolution is not the only pathway for survivors. That is why resources and supportive measures are available to all survivors, regardless of whether a formal complaint is filed." This memorial on Burbank Drive in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Jan. 25, 2023, was placed in honor of Madison Brooks, who was fatally struck by a car in this approximate location on Jan. 15, 2023. The university has 25 confidential advisers across campus who can assist survivors by talking them through the Title IX process and all the available resources, according to Laymoun. After Brooks' alleged rape and death, LSU President William F. Tate IV said in a statement that "what happened to her was evil" and that the community should focus its attention on the bars that serve alcohol to underage students. A couple of student groups criticized his response, though, and referred to it as "victim blaming." While Brooks' alleged rape and death did not occur on campus, the College Democrats of LSU and Feminists in Action said in a letter to Tate that "the student body finds itself sickened by this attempt to victim blame and further ignore the overwhelming violence, particularly sexual violence, we face as students. Instead, you chose to reinforce rape culture on our campus and in the greater East Baton Rouge community." Last week, investigators announced they arrested four men after two had allegedly raped an intoxicated Brooks – while the other two were present – inside a vehicle before dropping her off along a busy highway where she was fatally struck by a car. Neither the alleged rape nor Brooks' death occurred on LSU's campus. From left: Kaivon Washington, Casen Carver and Everett Lee. The fourth suspect, a minor, has not been identified. Two of the suspects, 18-year-old Kaivon Washington and a 17-year-old suspect, who has not been identified, have been charged with third-degree rape. Two more, 18-year-old Casen Carver and 28-year-old Everett Lee, were charged with being principles to third-degree rape. In Louisiana, third-degree rape involves sexual intercourse that "is deemed to be without the lawful consent of a victim," according to state law. Prosecutors have reportedly said they are seeking upgraded charges against the suspects. During a press conference on Jan. 27, attorneys representing the suspects said the sex was consensual. Attorney Ron Haley reiterated his past arguments that video reflects the suspects’ innocence. SUSPECTS IN LSU STUDENT MADISON BROOKS CASE RELEASED FROM BATON ROUGE JAIL, RECORDS SHOW LSU sorority student Madison Brooks was hit and killed by a car. Joe Long, who represents another one of the suspects, went further, telling reporters, "If Ms. Brooks was alive, this would not be a crime." "She would not have complained about it at all," Long said. "The only reason it’s there is because the understandable anger in the community wants someone to pay for her death. And we understand that, but our clients did not do that." The driver who hit Brooks was not charged. A spokesperson for the Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office said the driver wasn't impaired and had called 911 immediately. Fox News Digital learned that two good Samaritans pulled over that night and administered CPR to Brooks in an attempt to save her life. Washington was released from jail on $150,000 bond on Jan. 26 and taken into custody the next day in connection with a 2020 alleged rape involving a girl who was 12 at the time. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Visitation and funeral services for Brooks will be held in Covington, Louisiana, on Friday, Feb. 3. In lieu of flowers, her family is asking that the public make donations to The Madison Brooks Foundation in honor of her "life and legacy."

i believe the right has little use for people of color and to include women. maybe you can convince me otherwise? i also remember i think her thinking she was "on campus" on the same grounds just not. and here again how many lies has she told? i mean they all do it to some extent. trump was a huge liar. greene tALKING ABOUT JEWISH SPACE LASERS IS NOT A LIE?apologies for caps i have to run in a minute so i am pressed for time.

why did the gov not go after trump like they did BILL? seriously.trump had as many or more complaints and in case you forget some of the witnesses at that time were stated as to have paid witnesses to testify. and yes i think the repubs did lie about bill. of course bill was a horn dog but i will never believe he ever raped anyone. did he make unwanted advances? of course he did. i still love you m4 as you are passionate about gov like i am. but the difference between us is i have stated many times when i do not like something the dems did and i am not sure you do. and some of you guys need to understand the arguing thing. at the end of the day i could actually buy you a steak if we met in auburn sometime and i am pretty sure few of you would even want to meet the mighty aubes. my point is i fight hard and i always want the truth but i do not hold it personal against anyone.

Seth Meyers Spots Moment When Rep. Matt Gaetz Admits The Truth About Ilhan Omar Josephine Harvey ~2 minutes Seth Meyers believes Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) may have admitted the real reason Republicans kicked Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) off the House Foreign Affairs Committee. House Republicans voted to remove Omar from the committee on Thursday, citing past comments she made about Israel that were criticized as antisemitic. The move was widely viewed as political revenge for when Democrats removed Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) from committees in 2021 over social media posts suggesting violence against Democrats. On “Late Night,” Meyers said Thursday that Republicans voted to remove Omar, one of the only two Muslim women in the House, “for the simple reason that they don’t like her or her point of view.” And Gaetz admitted as much this week, he noted, showing a clip of Gaetz earlier this week saying: “The reason I think a lot of Republicans want to kick Ilhan Omar off of the Foreign Affairs Committee is because they don’t like what she has to say.” “You know how ****** up something has to be for me to agree with Matt Gaetz?” Meyers said. “The only other thing we see eye to eye on are the benefits of large foreheads.”

AOC to GOP: Don't tell me you're condemning antisemitism when a Republican 'who has talked about Jewish space lasers' gets a plum committee assignment Nicole Gaudiano 3–4 minutes MTG has challenged AOC to a debate on pay-per-view TV over the Green New Deal.Drew Angerer/Getty Images and Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images AOC unloaded on Republicans for hypocrisy with their vote to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar from her committee. She said Republicans have been rewarded with plum committee assignments after doing worse. "This is about targeting women of color in the United States of America," she said. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez unloaded on Republicans for hypocrisy Thursday while defending her fellow "squad" member, Rep. Ilhan Omar. Republicans voted to remove Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee because of her controversial comments in the past about Israel. Ocasio-Cortez, in a fiery floor speech, said Republicans have been rewarded for doing worse. "Don't tell me that this is about a condemnation of antisemitic remarks, when you have a member of the Republican caucus who has talked about Jewish space lasers, and also elevated her to some of the highest committee assignments in this body," she said, a reference to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. "This is about targeting women of color in the United States of America." Greene in 2018 published false and antisemitic conspiracy theories alleging the "Camp Fire" wildfire in California was orchestrated by politicians and wealthy Jewish bankers. After being stripped of committee assignments last Congress for her rhetoric, she now sits on prestigious committees on oversight and homeland security. Ocasio-Cortez further called out Republicans for rewarding Rep. Paul Gosar, without mentioning by name, "with one of the most prestigious committee assignments in this Congress" after she said he threatened her life. The House voted in 2021 to censure Gosar and remove him from his committee assignments when he tweeted an edited anime video that showed him killing Ocasio-Cortes. His committee assignments this Congress include oversight and natural resources. "I didn't get a single apology when my life was threatened. Thank you," she said, ending her speech by slamming her book on the lectern. The House voted along party lines to remove Omar from the foreign affairs committee, except for Republican Rep. Dave Joyce of Ohio, who voted "present." Ocasio-Cortez, of New York, said a "disgusting legacy" of the September 11 terrorism attacks has been the targeting of and racism against Muslim Americans. She characterized the vote against Omar, who is Muslim, as "an extension of that legacy." "There is nothing consistent with the Republican Party's continued attack except for the racism and incitement of violence against women of color in this body," she said. Read the original article on Business Insider

i remember when the repukes tried like hell to get rid of bill clinton.

no sir but it does touch on hypocricy which makes it a vaild point and a bad look.

Hugh Freeze on Auburn football adding a transfer QB: 'I'll know a lot more after spring practice' Richard Silva, Montgomery Advertiser 3–4 minutes AUBURN — Auburn football coach Hugh Freeze told media in December he was interested in adding a transfer quarterback under certain conditions. "If it's the right one that we believe we can win games with," he said of combing the portal for a QB. "We've gone back and forth on our rankings of them and we're kind of looking at that list right now and in conversations with the next man up. Hopefully, we'll get the right one." Fast forward six weeks and the Tigers haven't acquired one. "We entertained a few quarterbacks, in my mind, in the first portal window, but never felt great about many," Freeze said Thursday. "There were a couple that we did, but they didn't pan out for whatever reason here at Auburn, and I was OK with that, honestly. I'm excited to work with the ones we have." CALLING PLAYS:Why Auburn football's Hugh Freeze decided to give OC Philip Montgomery play-calling duties TO-DO LIST:What Auburn football coach Hugh Freeze said he'd like to accomplish before spring practice Auburn returns three quarterbacks who got on the field last season: Robby Ashford, Holden Geriner and T.J. Finley. Ashford started the final nine games after Finley started the first three. Geriner saw action against Missouri when Ashford got hurt and Finley was out with an injury. Asked again about bringing in a portal quarterback, Freeze wasn't definitive in his response. "I think I'll know a lot more after spring practice," he said. "Truthfully, when I watched the cut-ups that I've watched, man, it's hard. It's hard for me to adequately judge quarterbacks if they're not afforded the opportunity to stand in the pocket and make reads and make different throws for a decent percentage of time. "The sample size for that is pretty small if they weren't under some type of duress, or maybe it was more of a move-the-pocket scheme. So, I'm anxious to get into spring and kind of see how they handle that, and then I'll go from there with what we do in the second portal window." That second window for players to enter the portal is from May 1-15. Until then, the quarterbacks on Auburn's roster will have a chance to prove to Freeze that his starter is already on campus. "I think it's impossible for you to be a great quarterback and not assume the role as a leader," Freeze said. "Well, what does that look like? It certainly doesn't look like that there's no one in that locker room that wants to follow you. And it certainly doesn't look like someone who gets rattled every time something doesn't go exactly right. ... That's not what my SEC quarterback's gonna be." Richard Silva is the Auburn athletics beat writer for the Montgomery Advertiser. He can be reached via email at rsilva@gannett.com or on Twitter @rich_silva18.

How To Watch: Tennessee vs. Auburn Evan Crowell 2–3 minutes Home Volunteer Country Men's Basketball Coming off a loss to Florida, Tennessee must play strong basketball against a ranked Auburn squad. College basketball is full of disappointments. Tennessee is coming off a tough one on Wednesday when an unranked Florida squad thoroughly outplayed them. Forward Colin Castleton bullied the Volunteers in the final minutes and helped Florida put the finishing touches on an essential win. The Gators needed a resume win for when the committee begins to select March Madness teams, and they got one over Tennessee. The reality is that Tennessee will be getting everyone's best game moving forward, as everyone has something to prove to the committee aside from the top three or four teams. Auburn is an excellent example. While they aren't as desperate as Florida, the No. 25 Tigers don't have a marquee win that gives fans any real hope of competing for a national title. If Auburn beats Tennessee, we would see them in a different light. Meanwhile, the Volutneers must prove again that they can rebound after a loss; they ripped off four consecutive wins after losing to Kentucky, with three of those wins coming in SEC play. Scroll to Continue Read More How To Watch Auburn @ Tennessee Gameday: Saturday, February 4th, 2023. Game time: 2:00 pm ET TV: ESPN Stadium: Thompson-Boling Arena (Knoxville, Tennessee) Live stream on fuboTV: Start with a 7-day free trial!

BREAKING: Auburn lands nation's No. 3 point guard Tahaad Pettiford Nathan King ~3 minutes For the second straight class, Auburn has landed an elite point guard. The second commitment of Auburn's 2024 class is that of Tahaad Pettiford, the No. 3 point guard in the country who chose the Tigers on Wednesday afternoon over Kansas, Kentucky, UCLA, UConn and others. A product of Hudson Catholic in New Jersey, Pettiford is a 5-star prospect in the 247Sports Composite ratings as the No. 22 overall recruit in the class. He joins 4-star center Peyton Marshall, who committed in December, in a 2024 class that has a chance to be special for Bruce Pearl's program. Pettiford's only official visit this past fall was to Auburn in September. He unofficially visited UConn during this season. "Going on that visit and stepping on the campus, it felt like a second home to me," Pettiford said during his commitment ceremony livestream on the 247Sports YouTube channel. "It felt like a place I knew I could play at, and they could help me excel my game and take me to the next level." The decision by Pettiford, who's been measured at 6-foot-1 recently, makes for back-to-back classes with a top-rated point guard for Auburn, after Aden Holloway signed with the program this past November. Assuming Pettiford signs, he'll become the third-highest rated recruit in Auburn history, ahead of Yohan Traore and behind only Jabari Smith and Sharife Cooper. "They're going to get someone that wants to win," Pettiford said. "Coming in, trying to be a leader. A pass-first point guard, trying to get my teammates involved, but can knock down a big shot if you need me to. But overall, I'm just trying to win a national championship. That's the goal." 41COMMENTS With Pettiford's commitment, Auburn makes an early move into the top 5 in 2024, now with the No. 5 recruiting class in the country. The Tigers will likely pursue up to four players in the 2024 class, and more movement could come in just a couple days. The No. 1 player in the state of Alabama, combo guard Labaron Philon out of Mobile, told Auburn Undercover that he's set to commit during a ceremony at Baker High School on Friday. Philon currently has two 247Sports Crystal Balls, both to Auburn. ">247Sports

this might be a repeat but in case it was not here this is.............apologies