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VIDEO: Auburn Student Ejected After Yelling 'Go Back to Uruguay' at Tennessee's Santiago Vescovi

By Braulio Perez

An Auburn fan was ejected from a game for yelling a hurtful comment at a Tennessee player.
An Auburn fan was ejected from a game for yelling a hurtful comment at a Tennessee player. /

This kind of distasteful and disturbing behavior is going to get you tossed out of a game every time. On Saturday in the middle of the showdown between Tennessee and Auburn, a Tigers student was ejected for yelling at Vols' guard Santiago Vescovi to go back to Uruguay. Come on.

While No. 13 Auburn came away with the 73-66 win, the student section received an unconscionable loss. For this to be said at a player and be caught on camera is quite an embarrassing look for the university.

The student was ejected, but he may receive further punishment from the school as well. Rick Barnes was not happy about this incident, but gave credit to the way it was handled.

"Once they found out about it, they took care of it," Barnes said. "Glad they did. Again, I haven’t given any thought to it, but our administration told me that Auburn did what needed to be done and that is good by me.”

An unfortunate incident, and one coaches from both teams never happens again.