Mark Dickel is a New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 professional basketball player. He also holds Australian citizenship. He plays the point guard

Point guard

Point guard , also called the play maker or "the ball-handler", is one of the standard positions in a regulation basketball game. A point guard has perhaps the most specialized role of any position – essentially, he is expected to run the team's offense by controlling the ball and making sure that...

 position, and played the 2011 NBL season for the Southland Sharks

Southland Sharks

The Southland Sharks are a professional basketball team based in the Southland region in the New Zealand National Basketball League.The team plays their home games at Invercargill's Stadium Southland where 3,000 of the 4,500 seats are made available for regular season games.-Establishment:The...

, which saw him play under his brother

Richard Dickel

Richard Dickel is the current coach of the Southland Sharks in the New Zealand National Basketball League . Dickel, who is based in Invercargill has previously played for the Waikato Pistons and Otago Nuggets in the NZNBL and has now began a career in coaching...

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Dickel played college basketball

College basketball

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 in the U.S.

United States

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 at UNLV

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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 from 1996 to 2000, tying for the team lead in assists his freshman year of 1996-97 and leading the team in that category in his remaining three seasons.