The lights have yet to look too bright for Auburn basketball freshman Tahaad Pettiford. To those who know him best, that's ...

It can be retraced back to when a younger Pettiford was hundreds of miles away, getting shots up early in the morning in the Hudson Catholic gymnasium in New Jersey.

It's fitting that the swagger of Jersey City is instilled the Auburn guard's on-court confidence. But as much as his home shaped him, it's clear those who raised Tahaad Pettiford did the same.