Duke has always. drawn well in the NYC area. A lot of kids go to Duke, a lot of Duke alumni settle in the area and their basketball team recruits a lot in Jersey, especially. If I have not entirely lost my mind, I believe I caught a UConn v. Duke game at the old Izod arena or whatever it was called before it closed and it was 60/40 Duke fans, though there was talk that Coach K wanted nothing to do with playing UConn at MSG an insisted on the game being in Jersey. So with it being Duke and all of the ESPN driven press on Zion (I caught the Duke v. Princeton game for about 2 minutes and it was tough to tell if anyone else was on the floor besides him), no surprise.