TERRE HAUTE, Ind. - Indiana State men's basketball former player Xavier Bledson signed to play professional basketball overseas in Tampere, Finland with Tampereen Pyrintö.

Bledson spent three seasons with Indiana State Basketball after spending three at Division II's Lincoln Memorial. In his time at Indiana State, Bledson scored 699 points in 96 games, adding on 249 rebounds and 260 assists. He was a career 45.5% (230-505) shooter as a Sycamore, knocking down 86% of his free throws (154-179).

In his final collegiate season, the redshirt senior scored 263 points for a 6.7 points-per-game average, dishing out 2.8 assists per game and grabbing 2.8 rebounds per game. Bledson recorded a career-high 11 assists in the season opener. Later in the season through a span of five games (Dec. 16 to Jan. 3), he shot 12-for-20 from deep helping ISU to a 4-1 record; the Sycamores' lone loss was at Big Ten's Michigan State. Bledson played in each of the team's 39 games in the season, finishing 48.4% from the field, 35.7% from three, and 85.7% from the charity stripe.

Bledson will be the eighth active Sycamore playing professional basketball (Jordan Barnes, Trenton Gibson, Tyreke Key, Cam Henry, Courvoisier McCauley, Cade McKnight, Jake LaRavia).

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