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WATCH: Missouri HC Eli Drinkwitz trolls Kansas basketball with 'level one violations' sign

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FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS - NOVEMBER 26: Head Coach Eli Drinkwitz of the Missouri Tigers on the sidelines during a game against the Arkansas Razorbacks at Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium on November 26, 2021 in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The Razorbacks defeated the Tigers 34-17. (Photo by Wesley Hitt/Getty Images)

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.

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

Kansas AD Travis Goff used the win as a chance to take a broader victory lap

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.

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.