Well, this is brutal. Largely justified, but gratuitous nonetheless. Some snippets:

On Duke and JJ Redick: “In recent profiles in Sports Illustrated, on ESPN, and probably in Cat Fancy, the whey-faced shooting guard revealed that when abuse from opposing fans becomes too heavy, he escapes by composing verse. ‘No bandage can cover my scars/ It’s hard living a life behind invisible bars,’ he writes in one tear-stained stanza.”

On Cincy: “Red-faced and leather-lunged Cincinnati coach Bob Huggins has the recruit-the-delinquents routine down. The Bearcats’ police blotter is filthy with domestic violence arrests and the graduation rates are indistinguishable from zero. All that’s missing is the fun, the talent, and the victories in March.”

On Carolina: “I watched Roy cry when he lost in the second round as a No. 1 seed to UTEP and to Rhode Island. I watched him cry when he lost, five times, to the eventual NCAA champion. I watched him cry when he went home to coach his alma mater. I don’t want to watch him cry as he cuts down the nets for the first time with somebody else. Instead, I’d like to watch him cry as he does something else he’s never done in his coaching career: Lose in the first round. Cry, Roy, cry, in shame and humiliation, as your team is felled by the 13-18 Oakland Golden Grizzlies.”

On Tejas Tech: “The only Texas Tech alumni I can name other than me played football or shot Ronald Reagan. Lubbock was a wondrous place to eat meat or hear a band, but uglier than a group “before” shot from The Swan. There’s a reason all the postcards show Buddy Holly or a bale of cotton. Lubbock is flatter than whichever Olsen twin doesn’t eat and has all the greenery of the moon.”

Also coming for scorn: Stanford, Penn, ‘Cuse, ‘Nova, Vermont, Chattanooga, Kentucky….

[Credit: Thanks to Medical Affairs Desk Chief Will Bower, MD, for the link.]