OT: Journey to 351

[Greathusky]

I am beginning my fifth year of pursuing the goal to visit every D1 campus to see a college basketball game. I keep a blog of my travels at www.journeyto351.com. The "351" was the number of D1 schools when I started but has increased to 353 this year with the addition of Northern Alabama and California Baptist. It will drop back next year to 352 with Savannah State dropping out. I am currently at 65 games with the hopes of seeing 15 more games this season.

I have the following games definitely scheduled for this year while I await for all the schedules to be released:

11/6 Buffalo
11/7 St. Bonaventure
11/11 Cornell
11/12 Binghamton
12/1 Lehigh
12/2 Lafayette

TBD:

4 games in the D.C/Baltimore area (daughter now lives there)
Jackson State and Alcorn State in Mississippi (have a friend who has a second home there which will complete the state)
Drexel and Nova (will complete the Philly schools)
UCF (trip for the wife to Disneyworld)

To motivate me each year, I post this infamous classic quote from Fishy from year 1 concerning my quest:

“You have no chance of doing it. But beyond that, you don’t want to. At some point, you’ll find yourself at Houston Baptist watching them host Incarnate Word wondering just why you threw your life away. Then, you’ll make your way back to your $29 a night hotel room in Cow Dick, Texas, and drown yourself in the toilet.”

GO HUSKYS!

 

[Ewekon]

I am beginning my fifth year of pursuing the goal to visit every D1 campus to see a college basketball game. I keep a blog of my travels at www.journeyto351.com. The "351" was the number of D1 schools when I started but has increased to 353 this year with the addition of Northern Alabama and California Baptist. It will drop back next year to 352 with Savannah State dropping out. I am currently at 65 games with the hopes of seeing 15 more games this season.

I have the following games definitely scheduled for this year while I await for all the schedules to be released:

11/6 Buffalo
11/7 St. Bonaventure
11/11 Cornell
11/12 Binghamton
12/1 Lehigh
12/2 Lafayette

TBD:

4 games in the D.C/Baltimore area (daughter now lives there)
Jackson State and Alcorn State in Mississippi (have a friend who has a second home there which will complete the state)
Drexel and Nova (will complete the Philly schools)
UCF (trip for the wife to Disneyworld)

To motivate me each year, I post this infamous classic quote from Fishy from year 1 concerning my quest:

“You have no chance of doing it. But beyond that, you don’t want to. At some point, you’ll find yourself at Houston Baptist watching them host Incarnate Word wondering just why you threw your life away. Then, you’ll make your way back to your $29 a night hotel room in Cow Dick, Texas, and drown yourself in the toilet.”

GO HUSKYS!

It's Huskies.

 

[ConnHuskBask]

"Cow Dick, Texas" will always make me laugh.

 

[Scrutiner]

I am beginning my fifth year of pursuing the goal to visit every D1 campus to see a college basketball game. I keep a blog of my travels at www.journeyto351.com. The "351" was the number of D1 schools when I started but has increased to 353 this year with the addition of Northern Alabama and California Baptist. It will drop back next year to 352 with Savannah State dropping out. I am currently at 65 games with the hopes of seeing 15 more games this season.

I have the following games definitely scheduled for this year while I await for all the schedules to be released:

11/6 Buffalo
11/7 St. Bonaventure
11/11 Cornell
11/12 Binghamton
12/1 Lehigh
12/2 Lafayette

TBD:

4 games in the D.C/Baltimore area (daughter now lives there)
Jackson State and Alcorn State in Mississippi (have a friend who has a second home there which will complete the state)
Drexel and Nova (will complete the Philly schools)
UCF (trip for the wife to Disneyworld)

To motivate me each year, I post this infamous classic quote from Fishy from year 1 concerning my quest:

“You have no chance of doing it. But beyond that, you don’t want to. At some point, you’ll find yourself at Houston Baptist watching them host Incarnate Word wondering just why you threw your life away. Then, you’ll make your way back to your $29 a night hotel room in Cow Dick, Texas, and drown yourself in the toilet.”

GO HUSKYS!

With a wife excited about Disneyworld, it sounds like you're young enough to get it done.

 

[QDOG5]

@Greathusky enjoy the journey and keep us apprised. I would appreciate hearing some stories along the way. I've been to Disney so you can skip that part.

 

[intlzncster]

I love this post every year.

 

[Mokum]

Wow that’s quite a mission. Have fun.

 

[Greathusky]

With a wife excited about Disneyworld, it sounds like you're young enough to get it done.

I am 60 years old so I choose "young at heart" as my reply.

 

[HuskyHawk]

I am beginning my fifth year of pursuing the goal to visit every D1 campus to see a college basketball game. I keep a blog of my travels at www.journeyto351.com. The "351" was the number of D1 schools when I started but has increased to 353 this year with the addition of Northern Alabama and California Baptist. It will drop back next year to 352 with Savannah State dropping out. I am currently at 65 games with the hopes of seeing 15 more games this season.

I have the following games definitely scheduled for this year while I await for all the schedules to be released:

11/6 Buffalo
11/7 St. Bonaventure
11/11 Cornell
11/12 Binghamton
12/1 Lehigh
12/2 Lafayette

TBD:

4 games in the D.C/Baltimore area (daughter now lives there)
Jackson State and Alcorn State in Mississippi (have a friend who has a second home there which will complete the state)
Drexel and Nova (will complete the Philly schools)
UCF (trip for the wife to Disneyworld)

To motivate me each year, I post this infamous classic quote from Fishy from year 1 concerning my quest:

“You have no chance of doing it. But beyond that, you don’t want to. At some point, you’ll find yourself at Houston Baptist watching them host Incarnate Word wondering just why you threw your life away. Then, you’ll make your way back to your $29 a night hotel room in Cow Dick, Texas, and drown yourself in the toilet.”

GO HUSKYS!

Where have you made it so far?

 

[Greathusky]

Where have you made it so far?

• Albany
• Army (no blog post available)
• Boston College
• Boston University
• Brown (no blog post available)
• Bryant
• Central Connecticut (no blog post available)
• Columbia
• Dartmouth
• Delaware
• Delaware State
• Depaul
• Fairfield (no blog post available)
• Farleigh Dickinson
• Fordham
• Georgetown
• Georgia Tech
• Hartford (no blog post available)
• Harvard
• Hofstra
• Holy Cross
• Iona
• Lasalle
• Long Island University
• Loyola Chicago
• Maine
• Manhattan
• Marist
• Maryland
• Memphis
• Mississippi
• Mississippi State
• Mississippi Valley State
• Monmouth
• New Hampshire
• New Jersey Institute of Technology
• Northeastern
• Penn
• Princeton
• Providence (no blog post available)
• Quinnipiac (no blog post available)
• Rhode Island
• Rider
• Rutgers
• Sacred Heart
• Seton Hall
• Siena
• Southern Mississippi
• St. Francis Brooklyn
• St. Johns
• St. Josephs
• St. Peters NJ
• Stony Brook
• Temple
• Tennessee Tech
• UCONN (no blog post available)
• UMASS (no blog post available)
• UMASS Lowell
• UNC Asheville
• University of Illinois at Chicago
• Vermont
• Virginia
• Wagner
• Western Carolina
• Yale (no blog post available

 

[storrsroars]

• Albany
• Army (no blog post available)
• Boston College
• Boston University
• Brown (no blog post available)
• Bryant
• Central Connecticut (no blog post available)
• Columbia
• Dartmouth
• Delaware
• Delaware State
• Depaul
• Fairfield (no blog post available)
• Farleigh Dickinson
• Fordham
• Georgetown
• Georgia Tech
• Hartford (no blog post available)
• Harvard
• Hofstra
• Holy Cross
• Iona
• Lasalle
• Long Island University
• Loyola Chicago
• Maine
• Manhattan
• Marist
• Maryland
• Memphis
• Mississippi
• Mississippi State
• Mississippi Valley State
• Monmouth
• New Hampshire
• New Jersey Institute of Technology
• Northeastern
• Penn
• Princeton
• Providence (no blog post available)
• Quinnipiac (no blog post available)
• Rhode Island
• Rider
• Rutgers
• Sacred Heart
• Seton Hall
• Siena
• Southern Mississippi
• St. Francis Brooklyn
• St. Johns
• St. Josephs
• St. Peters NJ
• Stony Brook
• Temple
• Tennessee Tech
• UCONN (no blog post available)
• UMASS (no blog post available)
• UMASS Lowell
• UNC Asheville
• University of Illinois at Chicago
• Vermont
• Virginia
• Wagner
• Western Carolina
• Yale (no blog post available

Blog posts or it didn't happen!

 

[Greathusky]

Blog posts or it didn't happen!

I did not start my blog until 10 games in. I did save for posterity sake a ticket stub and/or a program from those games as proof of my presence there..

 

[JB75]

That’s awesome. Sounds cool and I bet u have some stories about the places u visited(both good and bad) good luck this year. Just don’t miss too many uconn games on yer travels.

 

[BLUEDOGHOUSE]

Very impressive. I agree with you on Rider. Very dangerous team this year. They open @ UCF.

 

[ConnZag3]

Not to steal @Greathusky's thunder in this thread but I'm also on the same quest and will throw a plug in for my own blog mission351.blogspot.com. I've completed 112/353 venues thus far (I'm a few behind on my blog) and will hopefully get 20+ done again this year as I'll be spending a week in NY/PA in November and a week in NC in December to start with.

That Cornell game on 11/11 is actually on my tentative list so I maybe I'll see you at the game Greathusky!

 

[LIuconn]

Stony Brook has a cool gym for its size

 

[Fishy]

To motivate me each year, I post this infamous classic quote from Fishy from year 1 concerning my quest:

“You have no chance of doing it. But beyond that, you don’t want to. At some point, you’ll find yourself at Houston Baptist watching them host Incarnate Word wondering just why you threw your life away. Then, you’ll make your way back to your $29 a night hotel room in Cow Dick, Texas, and drown yourself in the toilet.”

GO HUSKYS!

Jesus. I forgot about that.

 

[HuskyHawk]

• Albany
• Army (no blog post available)
• Boston College
• Boston University
• Brown (no blog post available)
• Bryant
• Central Connecticut (no blog post available)
• Columbia
• Dartmouth
• Delaware
• Delaware State
• Depaul
• Fairfield (no blog post available)
• Farleigh Dickinson
• Fordham
• Georgetown
• Georgia Tech
• Hartford (no blog post available)
• Harvard
• Hofstra
• Holy Cross
• Iona
• Lasalle
• Long Island University
• Loyola Chicago
• Maine
• Manhattan
• Marist
• Maryland
• Memphis
• Mississippi
• Mississippi State
• Mississippi Valley State
• Monmouth
• New Hampshire
• New Jersey Institute of Technology
• Northeastern
• Penn
• Princeton
• Providence (no blog post available)
• Quinnipiac (no blog post available)
• Rhode Island
• Rider
• Rutgers
• Sacred Heart
• Seton Hall
• Siena
• Southern Mississippi
• St. Francis Brooklyn
• St. Johns
• St. Josephs
• St. Peters NJ
• Stony Brook
• Temple
• Tennessee Tech
• UCONN (no blog post available)
• UMASS (no blog post available)
• UMASS Lowell
• UNC Asheville
• University of Illinois at Chicago
• Vermont
• Virginia
• Wagner
• Western Carolina
• Yale (no blog post available

Easy so far with mostly regional locations. Let me know when you get to Lawrence.

 

[Dogdeacon]

Via GreatHusky's website a link to a blog article about the blogs about the quest. Some good recommendations and Fishy's quote is immortalized.

I like the pragmatic approach you are taking that translates to seeing arenas/campuses regardless of size or, quite frankly, quality of hoops. Have you thought about building your quest around some of the more iconic arenas and then include the small guys on the way? It'd be interesting to do a triangle NC trip and compare Dook to UNC to NC State to Wake but then add in Elon, UNC-G & NCA&T. The campuses of the big boys will certainly be nicer and probably arenas too, but I'd bet the experiences at the small arenas are more memorable & fun.

My 4 most memorable trips are UNC, Dartmouth, Bridgeport (Manute Bol) & West Virginia as much for the unique trip experiences as what happened at the arena.

 

[Greathusky]

Not to steal @Greathusky's thunder in this thread but I'm also on the same quest and will throw a plug in for my own blog mission351.blogspot.com. I've completed 112/353 venues thus far (I'm a few behind on my blog) and will hopefully get 20+ done again this year as I'll be spending a week in NY/PA in November and a week in NC in December to start with.

That Cornell game on 11/11 is actually on my tentative list so I maybe I'll see you at the game Greathusky!

Not to steal @Greathusky's thunder in this thread but I'm also on the same quest and will throw a plug in for my own blog mission351.blogspot.com. I've completed 112/353 venues thus far (I'm a few behind on my blog) and will hopefully get 20+ done again this year as I'll be spending a week in NY/PA in November and a week in NC in December to start with.

That Cornell game on 11/11 is actually on my tentative list so I maybe I'll see you at the game Greathusky!

@ConnZag3 I read about your journey in Casey's article. I never made the connection that you would be on the Boneyard. Duh!
Good work in getting to 112. I wish you safe travels as you journey onward.
I would love to meet up at the Cornell game if possible and swap some war stories. I have used your blog in the past when previewing venues.
I will DM you my cell .

 

[Greathusky]

Via GreatHusky's website a link to a blog article about the blogs about the quest. Some good recommendations and Fishy's quote is immortalized.

I like the pragmatic approach you are taking that translates to seeing arenas/campuses regardless of size or, quite frankly, quality of hoops. Have you thought about building your quest around some of the more iconic arenas and then include the small guys on the way? It'd be interesting to do a triangle NC trip and compare Dook to UNC to NC State to Wake but then add in Elon, UNC-G & NCA&T. The campuses of the big boys will certainly be nicer and probably arenas too, but I'd bet the experiences at the small arenas are more memorable & fun.

My 4 most memorable trips are UNC, Dartmouth, Bridgeport (Manute Bol) & West Virginia as much for the unique trip experiences as what happened at the arena.

To be honest, I enjoy the small arenas more than the large venues. The smaller places have more atmosphere in my opinion. Fans are passionate at every level.

It is interesting to note that irregardless of the size of the arena, one can stereotype the fans at each. It is truly a piece of Americana watching the fans.

So therefore, I don't place any priority on size when planning my trips.

 

[ConnZag3]

Via GreatHusky's website a link to a blog article about the blogs about the quest. Some good recommendations and Fishy's quote is immortalized.

I like the pragmatic approach you are taking that translates to seeing arenas/campuses regardless of size or, quite frankly, quality of hoops. Have you thought about building your quest around some of the more iconic arenas and then include the small guys on the way? It'd be interesting to do a triangle NC trip and compare Dook to UNC to NC State to Wake but then add in Elon, UNC-G & NCA&T. The campuses of the big boys will certainly be nicer and probably arenas too, but I'd bet the experiences at the small arenas are more memorable & fun.

My 4 most memorable trips are UNC, Dartmouth, Bridgeport (Manute Bol) & West Virginia as much for the unique trip experiences as what happened at the arena.

The way the calendar lines up so far I'm planning to do UNC, Elon, Wake, Campbell, and NC State on 5 consecutive days in December so looking forward to getting a lot of the triangle covered. While UConn has always been my #1 team, Gonzaga is 1a and they're playing at the Dean Dome on Dec 15 so that's my top road trip this season.

While Storrs and Spokane are definitely 2 of my most memorable visits, places like Northern Iowa, Wichita State and South Dakota State are some underrated venues when you factor in things like fan support and design of the facility to make it feel like you're really close to the court.

 

[ConnZag3]

@ConnZag3 I read about your journey in Casey's article. I never made the connection that you would be on the Boneyard. Duh!
Good work in getting to 112. I wish you safe travels as you journey onward.
I would love to meet up at the Cornell game if possible and swap some war stories. I have used your blog in the past when previewing venues.
I will DM you my cell .

Sounds great! I'm jealous of you and others that live out east and can get to a bunch of schools in a 2-3 hour radius! I'm pretty close to exhausting all my drivable locations from Madison, WI so I'm gonna be pretty dependent on flyaway trips going forward where it's all about trying to get coordinate Saturdays or Sundays where I can get a doubleheader or even the coveted tripleheader in!

 

[Greathusky]

Sounds great! I'm jealous of you and others that live out east and can get to a bunch of schools in a 2-3 hour radius! I'm pretty close to exhausting all my drivable locations from Madison, WI so I'm gonna be pretty dependent on flyaway trips going forward where it's all about trying to get coordinate Saturdays or Sundays where I can get a doubleheader or even the coveted tripleheader in!

Yes I am slowly running out of "driveable" trips too even though technically anywhere is driveable to. Once I get to the six hour mark, I start to think of planes and trains.

I do have one triple header to my credit. Last year in Philly, I did Lasalle and St. Josephs on a Saturday and Temple on Sunday. That is the perfect trifecta for folks like us!

It does help that I am retired but married life plus kids in NYC and DC obligates me to choose 15 games a year as a happy medium between my journey and a happy wife. I joke with her that if I were single, I would be doing 30 games a year (at least!).

 

[UofCT]

Yes I am slowly running out of "driveable" trips too even though technically anywhere is driveable to. Once I get to the six hour mark, I start to think of planes and trains.

I do have one triple header to my credit. Last year in Philly, I did Lasalle and St. Josephs on a Saturday and Temple on Sunday. That is the perfect trifecta for folks like us!

It does help that I am retired but married life plus kids in NYC and DC obligates me to choose 15 games a year as a happy medium between my journey and a happy wife. I joke with her that if I were single, I would be doing 30 games a year (at least!).

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