Florida State Freshman Explodes for 30 points in Last 4:38

On Wednesday, February 25, Florida State University freshman basketball player, Xavier Rathan-Mayes, carried the struggling Seminoles in the closing minutes. He scored 30 points in the final 4:38, but it wasn't enough to overcome the 18-point lead the Miami Hurricanes built. Miami won the contest 77-81 despite their
defensive collapse.

Rathan-Mayes' efforts not enough for FSU
(Photo: Hector Gabino/AP)

Rathan-Mayes scored 26 consecutive points without missing a shot. In the final 4:38, he shot 8-for-10, knocking down six 3-pointers, a pair of lay-ups and 8 free throws. Rathan-Mayes, a Canadian guard, played along side Andrew Wiggins in high school. With his 30-point explosion, expect to see Rathan-Mayes' name to climb on mock draft boards if he decides to declare for the 2015 NBA Draft.

"It was a crazy feeling just to be locked into a zone like that," Rathan-Mayes said Thursday,"I was telling my dad earlier that I'd never been in a zone like that."

Rathan-Mayes entered Wednesday's contest averaging 13.6 points and finished with a career high of 35.

Wilt Chamberlain's 100, Kobe Bryant's 81, Tracy McGrady's 13 in 35 seconds and Pete Maravich's 69 are all notable scoring performances, but where does Rathan-Mayes' outburst rank among these NBA legends?

Maravich holds the NCAA career record for points with 3,667 at LSU. In a career filled with consistent 50+ point performances, Maravich's most notable game came in February 1970 at Alabama, where he poured in 69 points on 26-for-57 shooting. Though Rathan-Mayes hasn't shown this level of production, who knows what he is capable of?

View Rathan-Mayes' historic performace here.