Florida State couldn’t get past Miami Wednesday, allowing 52 second-half points in an 81-77 loss to the Hurricanes.
You wouldn’t have known by the way Xavier Rathan_Mayes finished the ballgame.
Rathan-Mayes scored 30 points in the final 4:39 of regulation, nearly single-handedly leading a torrid comeback from 18 points down. He scored all but three points in Florida State’s comeback bid, including a stretch of 26 straight. He knocked down eight of 10 shots, highlighted by a 6-of-8 mark from beyond the arc, and he drained eight shots at the charity stripe.
“One of the greatest shooting performances I have ever seen,” Miami coach Jim Larranaga said, per Chip Patterson of CBS Sports.
FSU's Xavier Rathan-Mayes' 2nd half in loss at Miami: -Scored/assisted on team's final 38 pts -Scored 26 straight pts pic.twitter.com/W3E31jgJ1Q
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