After attending Saturday’s American-Lehigh men’s basketball game at Bender Arena, Craig Caswell has seen 364 Division I teams in 131 venues.
A Detroit Pistons fan who didn’t pay much attention to college hoops growing up, Caswell, 32, walked into Bowling Green’s Anderson Arena for the first time in the fall of 2008 and grabbed a seat in the front row for a game against Wayne State. He felt a bit like Spike Lee sitting courtside at Madison Square Garden, and he was hooked. Caswell went to most of the Falcons’ home games that season and again as a sophomore, when he made trips to see games at Wright State, Akron and Kent State.
Meyer has joined Caswell at dozens of games in the decade since, and she has embraced his planning vacations around the college basketball schedule. They have developed a routine for the new schools they visit together. If they arrive early enough, they like to walk around campus to take in the architecture and visit the bookstore. In the arena, they stroll the concourse, comparing it with places they have been before.
On a subsequent trip to see Tennessee Martin host Samford, Caswell bought general admission tickets. The couple found seats in his favorite spot — center court, eye level with the rim — on a side of the arena that was otherwise completely empty. A game day operations employee walked over, looked at them quizzically and asked, “Y’all aren’t Samford fans, are ya?”Caswell told the woman about his quest.
“I’m 5-foot-5,” Caswell said. “If I’m in an arena that is built out instead of up, like at Dayton, oftentimes I have a hard time seeing. Petersen Events Center has great sightlines and is a more intimate venue, and the Oakland Zoo is one of the most underrated student sections in all of college basketball.”
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