Basketball Coach Charged With Ovi After Parking In Front Yard, Struggling With Alphabet: Police

A women's assemblage hoops coach was arrested past week for alleged drunken driving aft constabulary said he was recovered parked successful his beforehand gait and smelled for illustration alcohol.

Kevin McGuff, nan caput coach astatine Ohio State, took much than 2 minutes to unfastened nan driver's broadside doorway aliases model earlier refusing a Breathalyzer and denying he had been drinking aliases taken medications that could consequence successful impairment, according to a constabulary study obtained by The Columbus Dispatch.

McGuff was asked to singing nan alphabet from letters D done R, an bid he was fixed 3 times, but he said thing aft D, according to police.

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Ohio State Buckeyes caput coach Kevin McGuff walks crossed nan tribunal during nan 2nd information of nan women's NCAA Tournament against nan Tennessee Lady Vols astatine Value City Arena successful Columbus March 23, 2025. (Adam Cairns/Columbus Dispatch/USA Today Network via Imagn Images)

"The (university) is successful connection pinch Coach McGuff and monitoring nan business closely. This is an ongoing, individual ineligible matter, and nan (university) will stock further accusation astatine nan due time," Ohio State said successful a statement, via nan New York Post.

Ohio State Buckeyes caput coach Kevin McGuff talks to his squad during a timeout March 8, 2025, successful a semifinal crippled astatine nan 2025 Big Ten Tournament. (Grace Smith/IndyStar/USA Today Network via Imagn Images)

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McGuff was wrong a 2013 Toyota Sequoia. Shortly earlier McGuff's apprehension connected a complaint of operating a conveyance while impaired (OVI), a bystander called constabulary to study personification successful a 2013 Toyota Sequoia driving recklessly. That driver had struck respective curbs and traveled done a yard, nan caller said, according to The Dispatch.

The coach told nan police, 13 seconds aft being asked, that he had been astatine a restaurant. When asked what he had eaten, he said, "dinner," according to nan report.

Ohio State Buckeyes caput coach Kevin McGuff during nan 4th fourth against nan USC Trojans astatine Galen Center.  (Robert Hanashiro/Imagn Images)

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McGuff has been Ohio State's coach since 2013 and has a 224-109 grounds since joining nan Buckeyes. He's been to 8 NCAA tournaments pinch OSU aft spending 2 seasons pinch Washington and 9 astatine Xavier.

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