March is a particularly tough month for Darius Washington Jr., the former University of Memphis basketball star who missed two free throws with no time on the clock to lose the Conference USA Championship to Louisville.

A heartbreaking moment for Washington surely, and the video is all the proof you need for that, but he would bounce back in his sophomore year to lead the Memphis Tigers to the Elite Eight. The notion that this ruined his career is overblown, although it was a very public meltdown on a big stage. 

The moment became the centerpiece to Phish’s Fuego ballad “The Line” and became one of those really unique sports/music crossover moments. However, wires have certainly been crossed and we need to clear the air right here. 

It starts with Trey Anastasio’s comment on stage in Atlantic City following the Fuego set, saying the song was inspired by Darius Washington Jr., who missed two free throws in the Final Four against Michigan State. While this was neither the Final Four or Michigan State, we can forgive Anastasio for his slip up on stage. 

But things got awfully curious a couple of years later when Washington Jr. gave the below interview while playing basketball in the Czech Republic for CEZ Nymburk.

“One of the band members–he went through a similar situation,” Washington Jr. says. “He played basketball at Michigan State, so he could feel my pain.” 

Uh. What? 

While it’s certainly curious that Michigan State somehow came back around to involve itself in this situation despite having no ties to it whatsoever, it’s time to clear up this confusion in the name of March. 

As Anastasio told Relix ahead of the band’s last record Big Boat, the song is about “a person who had publicly crashed and burned, which I have recently done,” referring to his 2006 arrest. “I stumbled and fell and collapsed in front of a large group of people, and I wanted to access that feeling. The experience of failure turned out to be a gift—I wanted to write a song that expressed that feeling from my perspective. I could relate to a lot of Darius’ story, even his relationship with his dad—I had a dad who was a coach when I was growing up.”

So, there we have it. Somewhere along the line (pun intended), it got to Washington in separate moments that Michigan State was involved and one of the band members had a personal connection to the story, thus causing the confusion. Consider this case solved.