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LOOK: Kansas athletic director trolls Missouri for bowl game snub after Border War hoops win

On3 imageby:Andrew Graham12/10/22

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Whether or not Missouri really didn’t want to play Kansas in a bowl game this year depends on who you ask. According to early reports, Missouri was opposed, but then administrators for the Tigers said that they were fine to play the Jayhawks in a bowl.

What was clear on Saturday, however, was the beating Kansas delivered to Missouri, 95-67, on the hardwood. And Kansas athletic director Travis Goff used the occasion to take a victory lap on the Tigers.

“Proud of our young men and the best coaching staff in the country – when you cut down the nets on the greatest stage you are unfazed in any other environment. Sorry we can’t do it again on the gridiron later this month,” Goff tweeted.

And probably all the sweeter, given the “level one violations” troll from Missouri football coach Eli Drinkwitz.

Drinkwitz trolled Kansas hoops for the violations that had Bill Self suspended to start the season

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.

There has been not one bit of love lost between the rivals in the last month, and it doesn’t look like there will be any reprieve from the rivalry soon.