Krzyzewskiville
Krzyzewskiville, or K-ville for short, is a phenomenon that occurs before major men's basketball games at Duke University.
In simplest terms, it is the line for undergraduate students wishing to gain access to the designated tenting games.
[2] Showing up on Thursday for the Sunday tip-off, the fifteen or so friends set up four or five tents and prepared to sleep outside of Cameron Indoor Stadium.
They were quickly noticed by the rest of the student body, and by game time there were 70-75 tents in line to see Duke battle their long-standing rival UNC.
The number of tenting games in a single season is determined by the Line Monitor Committee of the Duke Student Government.
[5] Tents must register with the line monitors (students in charge of overseeing and enforcing K-ville rules and regulations) prior to setting up.
The locations are given in riddle form, making it more difficult to identify the spot, even once the clues are made public.
Duke has installed Wi-Fi service and Ethernet ports in the lightposts so that students can participate in tenting without falling behind in their schoolwork, although the internet is known to be very unreliable.
[7] Some feel this is a violation of the Robertson Scholars Program, which states that "they have full student privileges at both Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill.
However, once inside the student section the Robertson attendees removed Duke attire worn into the game to reveal UNC paraphernalia.
To prevent this situation from happening again, Robertson Scholars visiting from UNC were banned from tenting in K-ville, starting in 2006.
[9] For the 2021-22 season, the tenting period was shortened due to COVID-19; nonetheless, almost one-third of Duke's undergraduate student body attended and competed in a trivia test at Cameron about the current Duke team (including players' statistics, pets' names, and details from their social media accounts).
Many of tents are named and elaborately decorated, and some of which were documented in a 2015/2016 video series published by the University called "K-Ville Kribs.".
[12] Over the past few years, current players on the Duke Men's Basketball team have begun to show a greater involvement with and appreciation of the tenters in K-Ville.
In his last year on the Duke Men's Basketball team (2016–17) Amile Jefferson (now an assistant coach with the team) oversaw a half-court tournament played by current tenters, where the winning tent group got to be the first group for the final game of the season (Duke vs. Florida State University).
