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Indiana State University Athletics

2023-24 Basketball Roster

Jake Barton, ISU Communications
Kelly Donoho/Indiana State Athle

0 Xavier Bledson

  • Position Guard
  • Height 6-6
  • Weight 215
  • Class Redshirt Senior
  • Hometown Gainesville, Ga.
  • Highschool Gainesville HS
  • Prev School Lincoln Memorial
  • Twitter jabothegreat13
  • Instagram iamda.x

Biography

2023-24
Bledson capped his collegiate career earning the well-deserved MVC Sixth Man of the Year. The Gainsville, Ga. native played in all 39 games in his final season, starting seven. Bledson scored 263 points, the most in his three years as a Sycamore, for a 6.7 season average. He dished out 109 assists, starting the season off strong with 11 in the open against SMWC; he is one of five players to record 10+ assists in a game. Bledson finished the season shooting 48.4% from the floor, the best of his three seasons, to finish his tenure at ISU with a 45.5% field goal percentage. The guard finished the season strong, shooting 64.9% (24-for-37) from the floor between the MVC Tournament and NIT games. Earlier in the season, he shot 12-for-20 from three-point range in a four game span (Ball State through Evansville) to propel ISU to a 3-1 record, with the lone loss coming in a tight battle against the Big Ten's Michigan State.

2022-23
Appeared in 31 games with two starts...Scored a career-high 22 points against Drexel off the bench Nov. 23...Named to the Gulf Coast Showcase All-Tournament Team after leading ISU in scoring off the bench with 15.7 points per game through the three games...Came off the bench to play a season-high 31:11 with a team-high 20 points at UNI Jan. 28...Started at Belmont Feb. 22 and led the Sycamores in scoring with his third 20-point game of the season.

2021-22
Earned a spot on the Missouri Valley Conference All-Bench Team after seeing action in 26 games, including nine starts during his first season at Indiana State ... Led the Sycamores with 97 total assists and 3.73 assists per game which ranked sixth in the MVC ... Finished the year as the fifth-leading scorer on the team with 9.1 points per game ... Scored in double-digits in nine games, scoring a season-high 21 points on two occasions ... Paced ISU with 21 points during a win over Oakland City (12/20) before coming back three games later and scoring a team-high 21 points at Southern Illinois (1/19) ... Led the team at the charity stripe with an 89.2 percent average (66-74) ... Shot 42.9 percent from the field and 36.5 percent from behind the arc.

2020-21
Spent two seasons playing at Lincoln Memorial, utilizing a redshirt season between his first and second years in Harrogate ... Averaged 10.5 points, 5.1 assists, and 4.3 rebounds in 19.6 minutes per contest during the 2020-21 campaign, more than doubling his averages across the board from his first season with the Railsplitters.

2019-20
Utilized his redshirt season. 
 
2018-19
Played in 22 games as a true freshman, making three starts and averaging 2.6 points and 2.7 rebounds in 9.3 minutes per game.

Prep
Prior to his college days, played at Gainesville High School in Gainesville, Ga. ... Led the Red Elephants to the 2018 Georgia Class 6A state title game and was rated as a two-star shooting guard by Verbal Commits.

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Historical Player Information

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    2021-22Redshirt Sophomore

    Guard
    6'6" 215 lbs
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    2022-23Redshirt Junior

    Guard
    6'6" 215 lbs
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    2023-24Redshirt Senior

    Guard
    6'6" 215 lbs
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