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Duke, and Other March Villains
By Kevin Spak
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Posted Mar 18, 09 3:00 PM CDT
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(Newser)
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Along with the obligatory madness, March always brings along a slew of detestable teams and characters. This year, thankfully, Billy Packer is gone, but Josh Levin, writing for Slate, still has plenty to disparage. The list starts, as always, with:
- Duke: This isn’t the most deplorable squad ever, but Coach K’s “basketball as leadership seminar” style always evokes a bit of vitriol.
- Jim Calhoun: The Connecticut coach’s “classlessness and self-aggrandizing bring shame to a shameless profession.”
- North Dakota State: What’s wrong with the plucky Bison? Well, they cynically redshirted all their freshmen back in 2004. Hoosiers? More like Van Wilder.
- Eric Devendorf: He punched a woman and “harmed” another student, and Syracuse suspended him for a whopping two games. Now he plays “with the joylessness and hostility of a schoolyard bully.”
- Jay Bilas: “Billy Packer would be proud.”