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FSU Basketball Player of the Week: Xavier Rathan-Mayes

Florida State split a pair of ACC games this week as the Seminoles followed up their first road win of the season on Monday against Clemson with a valiant effort in a loss to No. 15 North Carolina on Saturday. The top performer over those two games was again redshirt freshman guard Xavier Rathan-Mayes.

For the fourth time this season, Rathan-Mayes is the Florida State Basketball Player of the Week. Rathan-Mayes earns honors for the week of January 19th through the 25th.

In Monday’s 59-55 win at Clemson, Rathan-Mayes led the Seminoles with 17 points and tied a career-high with 9 assists which was a game-high as well in Florida State’s first road victory of the season.

Rathan-Mayes followed that up with perhaps the finest performance of his young career, setting a Florida State freshman record with a career-high 35 points in Saturday’s narrow 78-74 loss to North Carolina. Rathan-Mayes also led the team with 4 assists and a pair of steals in the loss.

In all over the two games, Rathan-Mayes averaged 26 points, five rebounds, 6.5 assists and three steals while making six 3-pointers and shooting better than 50 percent from the field. Rathan-Mayes is now the team’s leading scorer for the season, averaging just under 14 points-per-game. His 4.7 assists-per-game average is on pace to be the best mark for any Seminole since Delvon Arrington averaged over six assists during the 2001-02 season.

About Mike Ferguson

Mike Ferguson is a Bloguin contributor, the editor of Noled Out and a lifetime Florida State sports enthusiast. Mike vividly remembers watching Warrick Dunn run down the sideline in Gainesville in 1993, the "Choke at Doak" in 1994 and Monte Cummings' driving layup to beat #1 Duke in 2002. Mike has worked as a sports reporter in both print and online. For isportsweb in 2013, Mike gave press coverage of Florida State football's run to the 2013 national championship. Mike has been featured on SI.com, FoxSports.com and Yahoo Sports while interviewing major sports stars such as 2013 National League MVP Andrew McCutchen. Mike graduated from Florida State University in 2009 with a major in Religion and a minor in Communications. Mike currently resides in Haines City, Florida with his wife Jennifer and daughters Trinity and Greenly. Mike is a full-time reporter at Polk County's newspaper, The Ledger, in Lakeland, Florida. Mike can be followed on Twitter @MikeWFerguson.

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