Auburn point guard and leading scorer Kareem Canty will miss a second straight game on due a suspension for "conduct detrimental to the team."

Canty, who was suspended for Auburn's loss to Georgia on Saturday, is not practicing and will not play when the Tigers travel to Tennessee on Tuesday (6 p.m. CT, SEC Network) and if or when he'll return is uncertain.

"Kareem will not be with the team this week in Tennessee and the suspension is indefinite," Auburn coach Bruce Pearl said.

Canty leads Auburn with 18.3 points and 5.3 assists per game, which rank fifth and third in the SEC, respectively.

Pearl would not elaborate as to the specifics of Canty's suspension or say if it's possible the Harlem, New York native could have played his last game at Auburn.

"That would be between Kareem and myself," Pearl said. ""I think everything we've talked about so far is all I want to talk about at this point."

Canty is the second Auburn player in as many weeks to be suspended for "conduct detrimental to the team," with senior forward Cinmeon Bowers serving a one-game suspension against Oklahoma State on Jan. 30.

The 6-foot-7, 250-pound Bowers, who is averaging 11 points and 9.2 rebounds, has since returned to the starting lineup and actually took over for Canty as the starting point guard against Georgia.

"(Bowers) was about to get back and be accountable for that," Pearl said. "Kareem's is more serious."

Bowers, who was also suspended for the Auburn's final game of last season in the SEC Tournament semifinal, said he's told Canty to "keep his head up" during the suspension.

"I went through the same thing," Bowers said. "Just keep your head up, be positive, keep going to class and just do the right thing."

Bowers believes Canty will be back this season.

"Yeah he'll be back," Bowers said. "He should be back."

Pearl gives his players a lot of freedom on the court but has not tolerated lack of effort or attitude. Internal disciplinary measures, such as individual or team running at practice, are routine, but Pearl said Canty's behavior deemed more punishment.

"If you can handle it that way then you handle it that way - and we do," Pearl said. "But then when it gets to a point where the inconsistency of the attitude affects the behavior to a point where the behavior is not acceptable to have you playing, then that's what you do, that's how you get involved in a suspension. ...

"You want to do what's best for the student-athletes themselves - both Kareem or Cim or any of the student-athletes - because you care about them, and the good does outweigh the bad. But then when you have those situations and you're not winning, it makes it really difficult. So what you do is you take the guys that you have and you do the very best you can to figure out a way to compete and represent."