“What’s funny about that is in the middle of my ... feel like you see Iowa State everywhere.” As for Niang’s banner-based joke? Haliburton laughed, then made a pretty safe prediction.

"Even my banner is getting ... of a lighthearted joke," he said. Ms James said the photo was "an attempt to make light of the vandalism". "It was offensive, it was not funny, I sincerely regret ...