The Cardinal Rule of Heckling

Piggy-backing off of the High Roller's brilliant post yesterday, I wanted to take a moment to stress one of the cardinal rules of taunting the losers on the other team (this could become a running series throughout the season):

Do your research. Taunting someone hits a lot harder when they hear a specific and carefully-researched insult. "You suck" could apply to any player on the court; "hey how did that 16-year-old get into your hotel room in Pittsburgh" hits its target with personalized precision. Fans of the Univerity of Maryland are legendary for doing this - they routinely make Duke's J.J. Redick cry like a little schoolgirl.

Bottom line: if you know that Vermont's coach has a certain proclivity for the drinky-drink, or that Hartford's man-beast of a center was dismissed from Hofstra for as-yes-unknown reasons, or that one of Vermont's guards is Canadian -- these are weaknesses that should be exploited.