Give an eagle-eyed reader all the credit for asking us why Renardo Sidney’s name was listed in the Mississippi State basketball box score in Sunday’s Journal.

It was an interesting little mystery for a few minutes.

Sidney, a highly touted freshman, has yet to be cleared to play by the NCAA and didn’t make the trip to Saturday’s game at Florida.

But there he was, getting credit for a steal – in zero minutes played – in the box score distributed by The Associated Press, provided to them by their numbers-crunching vendor, Stats LLC.

In the "short box" published in the Journal, Sidney's line looked like this: 0-0 0-0 0.

Turns out, the steal belongs to Florida’s Kenny Boynton. He wears No. 1 for the Gators and Sidney, if he’s ever ruled eligible, would wear No. 1 for the Bulldogs.

The steal was incorrectly credited to MSU’s No. 1 instead of Florida’s No. 1 by the Gainesville stats crew.

Gregg Ellis, the basketball SID for the Bulldogs, caught the mistake after the game and it was corrected on the official box score – but that correction was never sent to the AP.

Here's the corrected box score.