Kevin O'Neill and His Wife Allegedly Got into an Altercation with Arizona Fans [UPDATE]

The website (which has photos, purportedly from last night, in which a rumpled O’Neill has a drink in hand) claims the USC coach and his wife were escorted from their hotel – the JW Marriott – by security. USC AD Pat Haden quickly released a statement about the incident, and said it is “gathering facts.”

USC plays top-seeded Arizona tonight at 9 pm.

If there were as many Arizona fans present as Point Guard U implies, hopefully someone will produce video.

[UPDATE: Here’s a profile from 2008 on O’Neill’s wife … who was 31 at the time. Kevin O’Neill is 54. They met when he was coaching the Raptors. “Roberta was working in Toronto with a restaurant/distillery group that helped open fine-dining establishments, and in walked O’Neill, the head coach of the Toronto Raptors, with an assistant and the team’s strength coach.” She’s a singer. I particularly enjoyed this tidbit: “During a game at USC, Roberta couldn’t understand why fans were calling her husband a ‘Jim Boeheim wannabe,’ referring to the longtime Syracuse coach. Kevin told her later. It’s because Boeheim, like Kevin, has a wife 20 years his junior.”]