Duke Wants to Make Camping Out for Basketball Tickets Easier
Students famously spend weeks in tents to get tickets to the game against rival UNC, but new rules mean they won’t have to sleep outside in freezing temperatures.
Student tents at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.
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College kids these days just can’t stand the cold. That’s one take, at least, on a push by Duke University to make it a little bit easier for students to camp outside for weeks to get basketball tickets.
In a unique college sports tradition, hundreds of Duke students seeking free tickets to the annual rivalry game against the University of North Carolina camp outside Cameron Indoor Stadium each winter, in a patch of grass known as Krzyzewskiville, or K-Ville, after longtime coach Mike Krzyzewski.