“That one right there is going to be tough to beat no matter how many games I see,” Caswell said Saturday night from his and his wife Jaclyn Meyer’s spot near midcourt 11 rows up from the floor.

Those prime tickets came courtesy of the NCAA who brought him to Houston so he could attend his first Final Four as soon as it got wind of his accomplished quest.

Technically, Caswell’s journey began as a pre-teen when he witnessed his first college basketball game: a Dayton rout of George Washington in his hometown in 2002. He didn’t really connect to the sport until he was a Bowling Green student and attended almost every game on campus and started traveling for some road games. By his junior year, the idea of a seemingly impossible mission turned into a serious goal.

That’s when the man with a brain for data and spreadsheets went to work. He compiled a list of all the games he attended and started putting together a long list of teams he’d never seen. Each year, he combed through college basketball schedules and figured out which teams he’d reasonably be able to check off his list.

“My spreadsheet is pretty intense,” Caswell says. “… I’ve got charts and graphs and pivot tables for days.”

No amount of data was going to make it easy for a guy from the Midwest to catch the University of Hawaii, which rarely travels past the West Coast. Then, the 2019-20 schedule was released and the Rainbow Warriors were playing just one game outside of Hawaii, California or Oregon. Luckily, that one blip in the schedule was at Illinois, just a little more than a three-hour drive from Dayton, making it an easy one to check off his list.

Caswell, who will be attending his 45th game of the season when he’s back in his midcourt seat for Monday’s championship…