A few of us might name ourselves followers of NCAA males’s Division 1 basketball, however I doubt any of our fandoms attain the extent of Craig Caswell’s.

After seeing the Lehigh Battle Hawks play the American Eagles on Tuesday night time, Caswell achieved an unbelievable milestone: he can now say he has seen all 364 D1 males’s basketball packages play in individual. Lehigh was the final college he wanted to see, they usually pulled off a 62-59 victory for school basketball’s greatest fan.

Caswell’s first school basketball recreation was between Dayton and George Washington in 2002, however his journey actually picked up steam in 2008 as a scholar at Bowling Inexperienced. His spouse, Jaclyn Meyer, has been proper by his facet within the 20-plus 12 months journey, and since their relationship days has been serving to him accomplish the objective.

His journey has taken him to 131 totally different venues, and he says that Pittsburgh’s Petersen Occasions Middle is his favourite enviornment as a consequence of its “intimate” really feel. 

Regardless of having consumed an unlimited quantity of faculty basketball, he has no intention of stopping anytime quickly.

“This feels extra like a milestone than a conclusion,” he stated. “I’ll nonetheless go to extra basketball video games this season and past, solely now with a contemporary air of confidence with this achievement beneath my belt.”

Props to you, Caswell. Preserve doing what you like!