Colgate guard received call from Mom after fake viral tweet said he missed flight to NCAA tournament
Colgate guard Jordan Burns was sitting in his hotel on Wednesday night.
Burns and the Raiders had arrived on schedule in Columbus Ohio ahead of their first round NCAA tournament matchup against No. 2 seed Tennessee.
Suddenly, though, he received a call from his mother. She wanted to know where he was.
Now, that’s not an unusual thing for a mother to ask her son. But just days ahead of Colgate’s first NCAA tournament game since 1996, why would Burns be anywhere else?
A tweet circulated on Wednesday night that said Burns missed the team’s charter flight from New York to Columbus, and was instead taking an Uber to Ohio to meet the team.
After the Colgate Basketball team arrived in Columbus, OH they noticed they left a player at the airport in New York.
Freshman Jordan Burns missed the charter flight and is now taking a Uber to Columbus to meet up with the team.— Richard G. West (@RGW_News) March 21, 2019
Burns’ mom had seen the tweet, and quickly called her son.
“She was like, ‘Wow, I know if you would have missed this flight I know you would have picked up the phone and called me, right?’” Burns told the Knoxville News Sentinel. “I was, like, ‘Yeah, Mom, I'm in the hotel’ and things like that.”
Burns’ mom wasn’t the only one who reached out to him on Wednesday night.
“I had a lot of little messages like, ‘Did you not make it?’ Like, ‘Wow, they left you? Really? Like, that's crazy. After everything you've done,’” Burns told the News Sentinel. “People are telling me all this stuff. It's funny. But it's just a fake tweet. It's really hysterical.”
The sophomore has averaged 15.8 points, 5.8 assists and 3.1 rebounds for the Raiders this season, starting in every game. While it’s not impossible, it is hard to believe that the team would leave for the NCAA tournament and not notice that a key player like Burns wasn’t on the plane.
So when Colgate takes the court on Friday at Nationwide Arena, Burns will be there, per usual.
Hey, at least he didn’t have to pay for a more than 500-mile Uber trip.
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