Auburn Player Deleted Tweet After He Was Ejected

The Auburn Tigers have been having a tough time against Yale in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Perhaps the lowlight of the first half was seeing starter Chad Baker-Mazara ejected.

Just three minutes into the game, Baker-Mazara was slapped with a flagrant 2 foul after elbowing a Yale player during a play. The Yale player seemed to milk the impact somewhat, leading many to believe that it was a wildly inappropriate call. 

Nevertheless, Baker-Mazara was ejected and when he got to the locker room he apparently took to X (formerly Twitter) to express his displeasure. In a since-deleted post, he wrote "Lmao yall lame" and added a few laughing emojis.

Baker-Mazara promptly deleted that post, but not before some users were able to get a screenshot of it:

Auburn men's basketball coach Bruce Pearl certainly didn't like what he saw from Baker-Mazara. Per Ainslie Lee of AL.com, he said after the ejection that it was the result of a retaliation against a player that he should not have tried to do.

"Obviously, we just saw the replay and what he did was wrong. I thought it should've been a flagrant 1, not a 2, especially in a game after an entire season of work is something that's obviously going to disrupt us. He is one of our very best players. It was a retaliation. He had just got hit in the throat the play before and he shouldn't have retaliated," Pearl said on television.

Emotions are running high in this game.

Auburn leads Yale 41-34 at the half.