Conor McGregor was an unlikely guest on the floor of Tuesday’s BYU-Baylor men’s basketball game in Provo, Utah, where the former UFC champion was apparently embraced by the Cougar faithful.

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints leader Brigham Young founded his eponymous college in 1875 and since then students have been adhering to an honor code that famously forbids 𝑠e𝑥ual relations outside marriage, drugs, alcohol, caffeine and vulgar language.

McGregor, on the other hand, has been ordered to pay $257,000 to the woman who accused him of raping her in 2018 on a night when he was admittedly using cocaine. Furthermore, McGregor and the NBA‘s Miami Heat are currently facing a federal lawsuit over claims the MMA legend 𝑠e𝑥ually assaulted a woman in a bathroom at the Kaseya Center while security stood guard outside the stall.

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Not only is he accused of 𝑠e𝑥ually assaulting a woman at that game, but in a misguided on-court bit, McGregor struck the team mascot, Burnie, sending the costumed performer tumbling down to the hardwood earlier in the evening. A second punch sent the mascot kicking his feet and rolling in apparent agony.