Colorado State's Jack Payne is the first 2024 March Madness meme thanks to his glorious mustache
It only took one night of 2024 March Madness — the First Four, which counts! — for us to get a meme on the board.
That would be because Colorado State’s Jack Payne came into the blowout win over Virginia and fans on X (formerly Twitter) loved what they saw: a redshirt freshman who had a glorious mustache, one that we’ll hopefully get to see again when they face the Texas Longhorns in the first round on Thursday.
There was a lot of commentary and at least one comparison to the famed Tom DeLonge “WTF?” GIF from Blink-182’s First Date video.
Check it out:
That ‘stache! Jack Payne! https://t.co/zdbe7bH6qM
— Mike Flick (@Flickerbock) March 20, 2024
Jack Payne from Colorado State finished high school in 2022. My guy has some city miles on him pic.twitter.com/Q7hD8aPLMg
— Jason Alston (@SoulCitySigma) March 20, 2024
All of college basketball watching Jack Payne get Free Throws pic.twitter.com/0BU6LmcYj0
— Josh Fredlund (@J0shFr3d) March 20, 2024
— No Context College Basketball (@ContextFreeCBB) March 20, 2024
That’s Larry Bird’s long lost nephew Larry Eagle
— SyracuseJurgenKlopp44 (@Koooool_Jones) March 20, 2024
Is that a 42 year old plumber?
— Bob Smith (@CollegeFBskook) March 20, 2024
Jack Payne entered this game with 16 minutes played this season. And he got to show off the stache and score 2 points in the NCAA Tournament. https://t.co/xE5A9N5ouM
— Matt Clapp (@Matt2Clapp) March 20, 2024