List of NCAA Division I men's basketball players with 145 games played

In the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the statistic for total games played in Division I men's basketball helps opposing coaches to monitor the extent that a particular player is used on a team. By definition, a player has "played in a game" when he enters the contest via substitution or by starting the contest. All that is required is that he is one of the five players for a team on the court for a minimal time of one second according to the game clock.

In sports, it is typically the team's better players who get playing time in the most total games. To achieve this feat, generally several factors must all come together for it to even be possible:

David Lighty of Ohio State holds the record for the most all-time appearances with 157. His lead over the next highest player is partly due to a medical redshirt season in which he played 7 games. The player in second place, Jakob Gollon of Mercer, effectively had two medical redshirt seasons. Gollon suffered season-ending injuries in both his freshman season of 2008–09 and his redshirt freshman season of 2009–10, respectively playing two and nine games in those seasons. He was granted a rare sixth season of eligibility by the NCAA in 2013–14.

Currently, there are two ways in which a player can participate in more than four NCAA seasons:

Only one player on this list competed for more than one school—Kyle Wiltjer, who played two seasons at Kentucky before finishing his college career at Gonzaga.

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