LAWRENCE, Kansas – In a demonstration of trigger-happy media and bloggers, a slew of folks jumped all over the story that Duke senior Jon Scheyer had tweeted his cell phone number following his team’s National Championship victory Monday night. He didn’t.

I’m not a detective. I didn’t need to be in order to crack this case. A quick Google search of the number Scheyer posted led me to a Facebook group. You know, one of those “I got a new phone and need your numbers” groups? Well, the number had been posted to one such group by Zach Kelly, who incidentally is a fan of Wash U Athletics on Facebook.

Sure enough, after the tweet that most people took as an admission that Scheyer had released his own phone number, he followed up with a shout out to someone named Zach Kelly, who he claimed had won back-to-back Div. III national championships.

For those of you who don’t follow D-III sports, Washington University in St. Louis – known by many as Wash U – won back-to-back men’s basketball titles in 2008 and 2009. They also have a senior forward named Zach Kelly who attended Glenbrook North in Northbrook, Ill., which happens to be the same hometown and high school as Scheyer.

But I’m sure that’s all just a coincidence.

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