Krzyzewskiville, a lawn filled with lounging students and dotted with tents, houses lengthy pregame lines for Duke home games. It is named for legendary Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski.
DURHAM, N.C. — Duke University is one of the finest private research universities in the United States. Alexander Rickabaugh and Jason Frogh are freshmen, but they’re getting the hang of the research part.
Back before Thanksgiving, the two wandered around with friends, casually asking, “So when are you gonna set up for the Michigan game?”
Those asked were none the wiser. This was shrewd reconnaissance.
Standing barefoot on crabgrass Monday, Rickabaugh and Frogh basked in the trickery. For this game, they and six friends own the ultimate distinction on this campus. Their names top the list in Krzyzewskiville.
They’re first in line.
All it took was three days of camping.
“My dream come true,” Frogh said.
Four hundred and eighty Duke students were on the list as of nightfall Monday.
Like religious pilgrims forming pop-up cities at the convergence of the Ganges and the Yamuna, Krzyzewskiville appears over night and sprawls out from the Northwest corner of Cameron Indoor Stadium. It’s a pregame holy land named in
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