Hours after Colorado clinched the Pac-12 South by beating Utah Saturday night, things reportedly went pretty far downhill for two Buffaloes players.
2 Colorado players reportedly got into a bar fight with each other after winning the Pac-12 South
Both are suspended. Colorado plays in the Pac-12 title game Friday night.
In the early hours of Sunday morning, police reportedly charged one Buff with third-degree assault and another with suspected cocaine possession.
The Boulder Daily Camera cited a police report that said receiver Jaleel Awini and tight end Chris Hill, both seniors, got into a fight outside a Boulder bar, which ended with Awini facing the drug charge and Hill facing the assault charge. The Boulder County Jail’s booking report shows Awini was booked Sunday morning but doesn’t mention Hill.
According to police, the two players were drinking at Boulder’s Walrus Saloon, and bouncers kicked out Awini “for being drunk,” the Camera wrote. Awini reportedly blamed Hill for his removal from the bar.
After an argument, they fought, the police said. Also from the police report, as described by the Camera: Hill knocked Awini unconscious by punching him in the jaw, then ran away before bar staffers caught up with him. He “later told police he punched Awini because he was afraid Awini would punch him first,” the Camera wrote.
The Camera report also gets into how Awini wound up with a drug charge:
As Awini was being treated, a police officer found packets of what he believed to be cocaine inside Awini’s wallet. While hooked up to a heart monitor at Boulder Community Health’s Foothills Hospital, officers noted Awini’s heart rate spiked when they told him they had found the wallet, before mentioning the cocaine.
Awini then asked the cops what charges he was looking at because, “you know I got some (expletive) in my wallet.”
Awini was released and booked into the Boulder County Jail on suspicion of drug possession. He also had a failure to appear warrant on an Erie municipal ticket for urinating in public.
The booking log for Awini says he’s charged with possession of ketamine. When possessed unlawfully in an amount of four grams or less, that’s a class 6 felony in Colorado. But media reports, including one from the Denver Post, say the charge is for suspected cocaine possession.
Neither player is a statistical leader for CU, but both appeared against Utah. Colorado plays Washington on Friday night in the Pac-12 Championship Game in Santa Clara, Calif. (9 p.m. ET, FOX). Awini is suspended indefinitely, and Hill is suspended for the Pac-12 final, ESPN reported.
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