LOOK: Lane Kiffin reacts after Eli Drinkwitz trolls Kansas basketball with sign

Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin knows a good troll when he sees one, so it wasn’t surprising to see him comment after Missouri coach Eli Drinkwitz pulled one on rival Kansas this Saturday.

With the Tigers and Jayhawks basketball teams playing each other, Drinkwitz appeared in the crowd holding a sign mocking KU for its five level 1 NCAA violations. That prompted Kiffin to take to Twitter with his reaction on the troll.

“Come on man,” Kiffin wrote.

Come on man @CoachDrinkwitz 🤪 https://t.co/ltwGUR8jfN

— Lane Kiffin (@Lane_Kiffin) December 11, 2022

Drinkwitz’s troll also comes amidst reports that the Missouri football team refused to play Kansas in a potential Liberty Bowl matchup this season. Drinkwitz later refuted that report, calling it “not true.”

The Kansas basketball team was assessed the level 1 violations in 2020 after coach Bill Self and assistant Kurtis Townsend allegedly encouraged Adidas employees to influence high-profile recruits to sign with the Jayhawks. The case is currently still unresolved.

Eli Drinkwitz trolls Kansas basketball with sign

Missouri and Kansas are not particularly fond of each other, once upon a time as states and now, certainly, as college sports programs. With the two squads meeting up on the hardwood on Saturday in a revival of the former Big 12 rivalry, Mizzou head football coach Eli Drinkwitz got in a jab at the Jayhawks in front of the Tigers home crowd.

Standing among a bunch of fans in the aisle of a section, Drinkwitz hoisted aloft a sign. One side read “Get loud if you hate Kansas” but that was just a warmup for the flip side.

“Five level one violations,” the other side read, a reference to the violations that Kansas basketball was found to have committed that resulted in the suspension of Jayhawks head coach Bill Self at the beginning of the season.

As fun as the play has been, my highlight of the Border War so far is #Mizzou HFC Eli Drinkwitz holding a sign that says Five Level One Violations. pic.twitter.com/G2pWjSg0nY

— PJ Green (@PJGreenTV) December 10, 2022

Kansas, however, got the last laugh, blasting Missouri, 95-67.

On3’s Andrew Graham contributed to this report.