PITTSBURGH — Pitt basketball player Levance Fields will spend nine months on probation in a special program for first-time offenders to settle criminal charges stemming from a scuffle with police, his attorney said Tuesday.

Fields, 20, a junior point guard, was charged with aggravated assault, public drunkenness, disorderly conduct and other counts after the Sept. 16 altercation outside a nightclub.

Authorities dropped all of the charges, except for simple assault. Fields will appear in county court on Oct. 26 to enter the program for first-time offenders. If he completes the nine-month probation without incident, his record will be expunged, defense attorney Robert DelGreco Jr. said.

In a statement, coach Jamie Dixon said, "The incident initial report of this incident did not reflect the young man I have come to know."

Fields had not been involved in team workouts since his arrest, but will be able to participate now, an athletics spokesman said.