LSU Tigers’ NCAA championship hero Alexis Morris paid tribute to LSU 2020 Heisman Trophy winner Joe Burrow after Sunday’s 102-85 victory over the Iowa Hawkeyes.
Morris dropped 21 points and nine assists in the win over Iowa and celebrated afterwards posing with the national championship and a cigar. Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Burrow, 26, did the same in 2020 after helping LSU win the Heisman Trophy.
“Channelling my inner Joe Burrow after getting this Natty!,” Morris wrote in an Instagram post. Morris’ celebratory mood won’t extend to the White House, after President Joe Biden’s wife, Jill, expressed inviting losers Iowa to Washington DC.
Morris would instead like to visit the Obama household. “Michelle OBAMA can we (LSU NATIONAL CHAMPS) come celebrate our win at your house?," Morris tweeted. "Mrs. Obama made sure we had healthy snacks when I was in middle school, I still eat BAKED HOT CHEETOS ! Come on auntie Michelle," she added.
"I know we’ll have the champions come to the White House, we always do. So, we hope LSU will come,” Jill said on Monday. “But, you know, I’m going to tell Joe I think Iowa should come, too, because they played such a good game."
Final Four NCAA MVP Angel Reese also called First Lady Jill’s suggestion “a joke”, and she has been backed up by ESPN pundit, and highly respected voice in US sport, Stephen A Smith. He tweeted: “I mean absolutely zero disrespect to the First Lady, but you are 1000% correct. That is a bad suggestion. Runner-ups don't get invited to the White House. Why are we trying to change it now? I completely agree with you, Angel."
Reese has been in the headlines recently for her taunting of Iowa superstar Caitlin Clark. The Tigers superstar pulled out a "You can't see my" celebration - made famous by WWE wrestler John Cena - in the face of Clark.
Clark has often taunted opposition players herself, but fans took issue to Reese's supposed lack of respect. However, the criticism of the 20-year-old has been labelled as hypocrisy.
“All year, I was critiqued about who I was,” Reese said. “I don’t fit in a box that y’all want me to be in. I’m too hood. I’m too ghetto. But when other people do it, y’all say nothing. So this was for the girls that look like me, that’s going to speak up on what they believe in. It’s unapologetically you.”
