Who We Are? The Crazies!We are the pre-med that spends weekends in the library. We are the kid who spends more time watching Netflix than going to class. We are the piano player, the athlete, the cool kid. There is no one thing that we are- except Crazie. We are all very, very Crazie. Despite our parents paying for our education, we opt out of living in our dorm room for months to get the best seats to a basketball game! We do not do this because we like shivering in so many layers of clothing that you can barely move. We do not do this because we look forward to spending multiple lengthy showers trying to scrub the paint off of our bodies after the game (or because we want to find a random spot of paint in a hard to reach place days later). We definitely do not do this because we want to wake up to the sound of a siren at 4am and stumble out of a tent in the freezing rain to show our IDs. In fact, those are the kinds of reasons some people quit. But not the real Cameron Crazies. We stick it out. We do this because we care about basketball more than a lot of things. We do this because we love the feeling of looking up at a scoreboard that shows a score that delivers a painful blow to the hearts of Tar Heel fans everywhere. We do this because it is a priceless experience. That is who we are. We are Duke Basketball. We are the Cameron Crazies.
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What do we run? K-Ville!Krzyzewskiville (try spelling that out loud), also known as K-Ville is the tent village in which about 1,200 of Duke’s students live for a few months leading up the rivalry basketball game between Duke and UNC. At Duke, students have the ability to go to any athletic event for free. But when you have a student section in your basketball arena that holds 1,200 (according to the fire marshal) and a student body of about 6,500, not everyone can get access to coveted spots. So, you line up, and you line up early enough that you beat everyone else trying to get tickets too. Thus started K-Ville: with an elaborate set of rules (See Rules<--hyperlink page) to guide them, students pitch tents in this grassy area outside Cameron Indoor Stadium to stake their spot in line for as long as necessary to get the best seats, or even seats at all. There are a select group of students that serve as Line Monitors in K-Ville. Line Monitors enforce the tenting rules and will bump any tents that do not adhere to the rules. They are the ones that wake you up in the middle of the night for a tent check, and they are the ones that high five you as you finally run into the game you’ve waited so long for. All of this sounds well and good, but K-Ville is so much more than just the place with the tents. K-Ville is the heart of Duke Basketball and it is the source of camaraderie, dedication, and fun! There is no place in the world that can compare to this unique hotbed of tradition.
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