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Meade played college basketball at SUNY Potsdam, As a freshman he was a 6-foot-2 guard-forward from Long Island City, New York, out of Mater Christi and wore No. 24 for the Bears under head coach Jerry Welsh in the 1974-75 season.

He played 24 games in 1974-75 and averaged 9.8 points and 3.6 rebounds, scoring 235 points with 94 field goals on 47.2 percent shooting and 47 free throws on 52.2 percent shooting, while adding 49 assists.

That freshman team finished 12-12 overall and 6-5 in SUNYAC play, and Meade ranked second on the squad in scoring behind Paul Hardy while helping Potsdam close the season with wins over Oswego State, Plattsburgh State, Utica College and Buffalo State.

As a sophomore in 1975-76, Meade moved to No. 15 and again played for Welsh, appearing in 24 games and lifting his scoring to 10.3 points per game with 246 total points, 89 rebounds, 100 made field goals, a 52.6 field-goal percentage and 46 made free throws.

He finished fourth on the team in scoring that year behind Bob Ulrich, Ron Ezzie and Charles Richardson as Potsdam went 9-15 overall and 3-7 in conference play, with one of the season’s standout team performances coming in a 104-82 win over New Hampshire College in the Concordia Invitational Tournament.

Meade returned as a junior in 1976-77 as a guard for a much stronger Potsdam side, playing 26 games and averaging 5.5 points and 2.1 rebounds while scoring 144 points, shooting 47.2 percent from the field, handing out 48 assists and collecting 55 rebounds.

That 1976-77 team finished 18-6 overall and 9-1 in SUNYAC play, went 9-0 at home, and closed the year by beating Buffalo State and Hamilton in the ECAC Upstate Tournament after Meade had been part of a lineup that also won regular-season games against Binghamton, Brockport, Plattsburgh State, Fredonia, Clarkson and St. Lawrence.

As a senior in 1977-78, Meade remained with Potsdam under Welsh and was listed as a guard from Long Island City, New York, with Mater Christi again noted as his high school and No. 15 as his jersey number.

His final season was limited to five games, but he still shot 12-for-22 from the field for 54.5 percent and scored 24 points with 11 rebounds and eight assists in a reduced role on a Bears team that finished 15-9 overall and 9-1 in SUNYAC competition.

That senior group reached the NCAA East Region, fell 68-62 to Stony Brook in the regional round, then beat Manhattanville 64-60 in the third-place game, with Potsdam also posting regular-season wins over Albany, Brockport, Geneseo, Oswego State, Binghamton and Oneonta.

Across the available four-year college totals, Meade played 79 games for SUNY Potsdam and scored 649 points, averaging 8.2 points per game, while grabbing 241 rebounds at 3.1 per game and shooting 266-for-538 from the field for 49.4 percent.

His year-by-year scoring moved from 9.8 points per game as a freshman to 10.3 as a sophomore before he shifted into a smaller offensive role on two strong late-career teams, giving him a college run that stretched from Potsdam’s 12-12 season in 1974-75 through an NCAA regional appearance in 1977-78.