Tennessee basketball trolls Sean Spicer with 'alternative facts' in game notes

Alternative facts are now officially a thing. Or, more specifically, they’re a burgeoning meme that has already reached well beyond Twitter and social media.

Long story short, White House press secretary Sean Spicer told numerous lies in his first statement of Donald Trump’s presidency on Saturday. Trump counselor Kellyanne Conway, speaking the following day on NBC, disputed the idea that these lies were falsehoods. “Sean Spicer, our press secretary, gave alternative facts,” she said.

The ridiculousness of the statement has spawned plenty of criticism, but also plenty of jokes. So Tennessee’s sports information department decided to get in on the act. They took a clever dig at Conway and Spicer by including their own set of “alternative facts” (see “falsehoods”) in their game notes ahead of Tuesday’s matchup with Kentucky:

The humor began with a joke about a coach using an iPhone in 1967, continued with a claim that a former player had a 12-foot wingspan, and concluded with some “alternative facts” on Allan Houston’s Twitter following — in 1989 and 1993, when Twitter, in this “alternative” world that some are living in, had definitely already been invented.

The closing statement is the best of all, though: “Vol Twitter stay woke.”

Just in case any media members or readers stumbled upon the note without knowledge of Conway’s ridiculous statement, Tennessee made sure to preface the “alternative facts” section with a warning: “If you aren’t familiar with the term ‘alternative facts,’ it is suggested that you Google it before you place much stock in this note.”

And no, this is not some parody of Tennessee basketball’s game notes. It’s the real thing, which you can read for yourself here. They snuck it in right alongside everything else:

Here’s hoping we get more humorous “alternative facts” from college basketball sports information departments and Twitter accounts soon.