Adam Zagoria covers basketball at all levels. He is the author of two books and an award-winning journalist whose articles have appeared in ESPN The Magazine, SLAM, Sheridan Hoops, Sports Illustrated, Basketball Times and in newspapers nationwide.
Huntington Prep shooting guard Xavier Rathan-Mayes trimmed his list to five schools via Twitter Friday.
The 6-4 Rathan-Mayes Tweeted, “My top 5 are Baylor, FSU, Uconn, Illinois and Texas no specific order.”
Rathan-Mayes, who plays on the CIA Bounce AAU team alongside Syracuse-bound point guard Tyler Ennis and uncommitted 2014 wing Andrew Wiggins, has yet to take the SAT and thus cannot take any official visits.
He will take an unofficial next week to Florida State, Huntington Prep coach Rob Fulford told SNY.tv. His father, Tharon, attended FSU, as did Wiggins’s parents.
“The kid can score,” Bounce coach Tony McIntyre told SNY.tv last month. “He can shoot the ball. I think getting into a college sysem will help him with his endurance and his training. There’s no flaw in his game right now. He can straight up score so I don’t see any head coach not wanting a kid like that.
“It’s going to come down to where he’s going to play and play a lot as well,” McIntyre added.
Adam Zagoria is a Basketball Insider who covers basketball at all levels. A contributor to The New York Times and SportsNet New York (SNY), he is also the author of two books and is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker. His articles have appeared in ESPN The Magazine, SLAM, Sheridan Hoops, Basketball Times and in newspapers nationwide. He also won an Emmy award for his work on the SNY mini-documentary on Syracuse guard Tyus Battle.
A veteran Ultimate Frisbee player, he has competed in numerous National and World Championships and, perhaps more importantly, his teams won the Westchester Summer League (WSL) championships in 2011 and 2013.
He lives in Manhattan with his wife and children.
Huntington Prep shooting guard Xavier Rathan-Mayes trimmed his list to five schools via Twitter Friday.
The 6-4 Rathan-Mayes Tweeted, “My top 5 are Baylor, FSU, Uconn, Illinois and Texas no specific order.”
Rathan-Mayes, who plays on the CIA Bounce AAU team alongside Syracuse-bound point guard Tyler Ennis and uncommitted 2014 wing Andrew Wiggins, has yet to take the SAT and thus cannot take any official visits.
He will take an unofficial next week to Florida State, Huntington Prep coach Rob Fulford told SNY.tv. His father, Tharon, attended FSU, as did Wiggins’s parents.
“The kid can score,” Bounce coach Tony McIntyre told SNY.tv last month. “He can shoot the ball. I think getting into a college sysem will help him with his endurance and his training. There’s no flaw in his game right now. He can straight up score so I don’t see any head coach not wanting a kid like that.
“It’s going to come down to where he’s going to play and play a lot as well,” McIntyre added.
