RANKING THE REBELS: 63 – Dedan Thomas
DEDAN THOMAS
Years: 1991 to 1994
Career highlights:
■ Ranks fifth in career assists with 549 and eighth in career steals with 151.
■ Scored 540 points in 85 games for a career average of 6.4.
■ Second in the nation as a junior with 8.6 assists per game.
■ The Rebels went 26-2 in his first season, which was the last season for coach Jerry Tarkanian.
Quotable: "Thomas was a great kid. He was on my last team, and it was a good team. We had J.R. Rider, and we won our last 23 games." -- Tarkanian
Currently: Lives in Las Vegas, coaches kids and owns a mobile detailing business, So Fresh So Clean. He and his wife, Tina, have three sons.
The Review-Journal counts down the top 100 players in UNLV basketball history, 20 years after the Rebels' NCAA championship season in 1989-90.
