University of Nevada Las Vegas

Only standing 6-foot and weighing 160 pounds while competing at the highest level of collegiate basketball, Mark Wade played much bigger as the ultimate floor general during his two seasons for the Runnin' Rebels. The Los Angeles native spent his freshman campaign at Oklahoma and second year at El Camino Community College before finally moving to Las Vegas to serve as point guard for legendary UNLV coach Jerry Tarkanian in the fall of 1985. As a junior Wade engineered the Runnin' Rebels to a 33-5 mark that included a conference crown and a trip to the Sweet 16. One year later, he set the NCAA single-season record for assists in a season with 406 - a mark that still stands today. That total included the school's single-game record of 21 dished out in one of the most memorable games in Thomas & Mack Center history vs. Navy on Dec. 29, 1986. Wade's masterpiece happened to come before the biggest crowd in the building's history - 20,231 - as the top-ranked Rebels routed the ninth-ranked Midshipmen and their seven-foot-one center David Robinson, 104-79. UNLV would run through the league with a perfect 18-0 mark and become the first team from the school to end the regular season ranked No. 1 in the nation. The Runnin' Rebels breezed through the first three rounds of the NCAA Tournament but survived a big scare vs. Iowa in the West Regional Final, overcoming an 18-point deficit to earn a spot in the school's second Final Four. While UNLV lost a thrilling semifinal to eventual champion Indiana at the Superdome in New Orleans, Wade set the Final Four record with 18 assists against the Hoosiers and ended the event with two more NCAA records that still stand -- most assists in a tournament with 61 and most assists per tournament game with 11.6 in a career (93 in eight games). Wade, who set the program's single-season record with 406 assists as a senior and still ranks fourth on the UNLV all-time list with 689 compiled in just two years, spent time with various professional teams, including the Golden State Warriors and Dallas Mavericks of the NBA. He was not done breaking records on campus, however, as he set the overall TMC mark for assists in a game with a stunning total of 29 on Aug. 26, 1988, while playing for the Las Vegas Silver Streaks of the World Basketball League. Wade, who served as UNLV's Director of Basketball Operations in 2000-01, would also go on to coach at multiple universities.

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