Fox & Friends host congratulates the 'NAACP champs'

On Tuesday morning's Fox & Friends show, Heather Childers congratulated Connecticut's basketball team for its Monday night victory over Kentucky.

The only problem? Childers claimed that made UConn "the 2014 NAACP national champs."

The show cut to a package of the team defeating the Wildcats, 60-54, then back to Childers, who got the Huskies' actual title — 2014 NCAA champions — right on the second go:

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Bobby Moynihan's Fox & Friends character actually made the same gaffe in a Saturday Night Live skit spoofing the Fox show this weekend (jump to the 24-second mark below), proving that in addition to being a comedy kingmaker, SNL head honcho Lorne Michaels may also be a psychic. --Sarah Eberspacher