List of NCAA Division I men's basketball players with 20 or more assists in a game

In basketball, an assist is a pass to a teammate that directly leads to a score by field goal. All of the players on this list have recorded at least 20 assists in a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I game. Assists were first recognized in the 1950–51 season, but only lasted through 1951–52 before the NCAA stopped recording them until the 1983–84 season. All players on this list have accumulated at least 20 assists in a game while playing for a Division I university. Through the 2009–10 season, this has occurred only 20 times.

The single game record is 22 assists, which is shared by three players: Sherman Douglas of Syracuse, Tony Fairley of Charleston Southern and Avery Johnson of Southern University. On four other occasions there have been 21-assist performances, while the 13 remaining instances have been 20 assists.

No school has had more than one player reach the 20-assist mark, but Southern University is on this list four times via Johnson's four 20-assist games during his career. Johnson, who spent his first two college seasons at New Mexico Junior College and then Cameron University, only played NCAA Division I basketball for two seasons (1987, 1988). He led Division I in assists per game both years and set the still–standing record of 13.30 assists per game in 1987–88. He is also the only player in Division I history to reach 20 assists more than once.

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