RANKING THE REBELS: 34 – Booker Washington

Career highlights:

■ Ranks 21st on the all-time scoring list with 1,190 points, including 1,085 in his last two seasons.

■ Led the team in scoring with a 20.4 average in 1970-71.

■ Scored a career-high 43 points, tied for the fifth-highest total in UNLV history, against Saint Mary’s in 1971.

■ Scored 30 or more points in a game nine times.

Quotable: “Booker was a great shooter, and in the 3-point game he would have been unreal. Distance was no problem for him.” — Rolland Todd, former UNLV coach

After UNLV: Washington died of a heart attack in 1986 in Harrisburg, Pa., at the age of 42. He worked at the Stardust, Hacienda and at Dunes golf course.

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