"I don’t know if you know this, but we were attacked last night," Kimmel began his show on Tuesday. "We were hit by another devastating Ted Cruz Twitter strike. Once again I found myself in a squabble with the Senate’s least-favorite senator, Ted Cruz, and once again guess who started it?… Me, I guess, I started it." Kimmel admitted defeat in the basketball game but went on to note that neither of them had anything "to boast about" regarding their respective athletic performances. Kimmel lost 9-11 and noted that 20 shots were made out of roughly 200 taken between them. He also alleged that the game was supposed to go to 21 before he and Cruz agreed to mercifully cap things off at 11.