Duke’s opponent Saturday is the University of Maryland Eastern Shore and that presents some issues when you’re trying to talk about an opponent.
First, for someone from North Carolina, having two coasts is an odd concept. Floridians can handle it and it’s fairly obvious on a map, but you don’t necessarily think of Maryland as having two coasts. Obviously it does though.
The Eastern coast is a distinct, more rural region than the interior, Western coast that hosts Baltimore and Annapolis. It has repeatedly tried to secede from Maryland, to no effect, most recently in 1998.
The university is in Princess Anne County and actually closer to the Western shore than it is the Eastern, so go figure.