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US Presswire
The student section at Cameron Indoor Stadium has long been considered a college basketball staple, complete with body-painted undergraduates heckling opponents and Dick Vitale body-surfing.
It seems that the once-renowned section has quickly lost much of its luster, though.
According to the Duke Chronicle, only 650 students have attended each game – just more than half of the 1200-person capacity for the student section. The school has been selling general admission tickets in the student section in an effort to fill it.
The lack of interest in standing in the rain and other weather conditions has turned some students off from going to games, although Garrett said people can show up a half-hour before tipoff and still get a ticket in the...