Indiana University of Pennsylvania Athletics

Jim DeMark wasn't a big scorer at IUP- he just saw to it that everyone else was.
By the time he wrapped up his career in 1970, DeMark had handed out 372 assists, the second-best total in school history to that point.  More than 30 years later that figure stiII ranks fourth on the all-time IUP list.
Many of DeMark's passes se t up baskets by previous IUP Athletic Hall of Fame inductees Garry Lupek (2000) and Lee McCullough (2002), a pair of inside threats who combined to score 2,677 points for the Indians.  If they were open in the paint, either DeMark or backcourt mate Mont Mattocks would invariably get them the ball.
DeMark never did score much himself.  He totaled 736 career points and averaged a career-high 9.3 points per game as a sophomore during the 1967-68 season.  But the 5-foot-11 guard was a heady player whose contributions to his team's success could not be fully measured by statistics alone.  Perhaps the best indication of DeMark's value to IUP is this: In his three seasons as a starter, the Indians posted a 61 – 12 record, at that time the most victories in any three-year period in school history.
The 1967-68 squad finished 18-6, the winningest record by an IUP team in 10 years, but that was merely a prelude to a sensational 1968-69 season that brought coach Herm Sledzik's program national attention. The Indians rolled to a 22-2 record, reeled off 21 consecutive victories and qualified for the NAIA District 18 playoffs. Unfortunately, their dream season ended in nightmarish fashion: Westminster upended IUP 67-64 in the semifinals.
The Indians set school records that year for winning percentage (.917) and the longest winning streak (each survived a quarter-century before they were eclipsed). What's more, IUP led the nation's college teams - all divisions- in average margin of victory (24. 1 points). No other team in school history has bettered that figure.
DeMark capped his career with a solid senior season.  Serving as co-captain a long with Mattocks, a 2001 IUP Athletic Hall of Fame inductee, DeMark averaged 7.3 points per game, doled out 111 assists (4.4 per game) and led the team with a .483 field goal percentage as the Indians finished 21-4.  He also won the Regis "Peck" McKnight Senior Scholar-Athlete Award.
A 1966 graduate of Lincoln High School in Ellwood City, DeMark earned his IUP degree in 1970 and added a masters of education in guidance and counseling from Florida Atlantic University in 1978.  He is currently Vice President of Quality Improvement for the Children's Home Society of Florida, based in Winter Park.
DeMark and his wife, Diane, have a daughter, Kim, and a son, Kevin, and three grandchildren: Ashley, Kaitlyn and Caroline.