Duke basketball's sixth man: Colorful tradition of the Cameron Crazies

When Lefty Driesell returned to Cameron Indoor Stadium as the head coach of Maryland in the 1980s, the 1,200-person Duke student section greeted the former Duke basketball center by wearing bald caps, a not-so-subtle nod to his thinning hair. And when Mike O’Koren and UNC made the trip to Cameron Indoor, the forward earned the nickname “Oxy 10 poster boy” from the same relentless crowd taking up Section 17 of Cameron Indoor Stadium. “He had a rather unfortunate bout of acne, and we were all over that,” said Kim Reed, Duke class of 1986 and one of the creators of Krzyzewskiville, better known as K-Ville. ”I look back on it now and I think, ‘Oh my God, that was so mean, I would never do that...