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Lichti played four seasons at Stanford from 1985–86 through 1988–89, appearing in 124 games and finishing with 2,336 career points, which stood as Stanford’s all-time scoring record at the time of his graduation, while his overall Stanford career averages were 18.8 points, 5.3 rebounds, and 2.5 assists per game with an 84.0% free-throw mark across 695 attempts.

As a freshman in 1985–86, Lichti started 25 of 30 games and averaged 17.2 points and 2.6 rebounds per game, totaling 516 points on 188-for-353 shooting (53.3%) and 140-for-172 at the line (81.4%), while adding 47 total rebounds, 69 assists, and 78 turnovers in 876 minutes on a Stanford team that went 14–16 overall and 8–10 in Pac-10 play under coach Tom Davis, scoring 74.1 points per game and allowing 70.3 points per game.

In 1986–87, Lichti started all 28 games and lifted his workload to 34.8 minutes per night, averaging 17.6 points, 5.7 rebounds, and 2.5 assists per game while making 170-of-329 field goals (51.7%), hitting 30-of-63 three-pointers (47.6%), and converting 123-of-152 free throws (80.9%), as Stanford finished 15–13 overall and 9–9 in the Pac-10 with Mike Montgomery taking over as head coach, with the team averaging 71.5 points scored and 71.5 points allowed per game.

Lichti’s junior season in 1987–88 was a 20-win step forward for the program, with Stanford going 21–12 overall and 11–7 in conference play under Montgomery, and Lichti producing 20.1 points, 5.6 rebounds, and 2.8 assists per game while shooting 222-for-406 from the field (54.7%), drilling 46-of-89 from three (51.7%), and making 174-of-198 at the stripe (87.9%), and that season also brought Stanford back to postseason play with an NIT berth after the team entered the tournament at 20–11, with a March 18, 1988 preview noting Lichti was averaging 19.6 points and had earned All-Pac-10 recognition for a third straight season.

As a senior in 1988–89, Lichti again started all 33 games and matched his junior-year scoring average at 20.1 points per game, pairing it with 5.0 rebounds and 2.4 assists per outing while shooting 240-for-437 (54.9%), going 36-for-83 from three (43.4%), and finishing 147-for-173 at the free-throw line (85.0%), and his season included consensus second-team All-American recognition alongside continued top-level Pac-10 honours as Stanford finished 26–7 overall and 15–3 in conference play, placed second in the Pac-10, ended ranked 13th in the final AP poll, and posted a 76.3 points per game offense while allowing 65.0 points per game.

Stanford’s 1988–89 season concluded in the NCAA tournament on March 16, 1989 in Greensboro, North Carolina, when Siena upset the third-seeded and 13th-ranked Cardinal 80–78, with Lichti scoring 17 points and contributing to a late rally that tied the game at 66–66 on his dunk after a steal with 6:36 left, before he was called for a foul on Siena’s Marc Brown on a baseline drive in the closing seconds that led to the decisive free throws, and the same game saw freshman Adam Keefe score 22 points, including the final 12 Stanford points, as Stanford’s season ended at 26–7 with Lichti closing his college career as the program’s leading scorer at the time.