ATLANTA – The national praise continues for Maxime Raynaud, as the Stanford senior has been named to the Jersey Mike's Naismith Trophy Men's College Player of the Year Midseason Team. The honor comes on the heels of his selection to the Wooden Award Late Midseason Top-20, his nomination to the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Center of the Year top-10 and to the Oscar Robertson Trophy watchlist.
Raynaud leads the ACC in scoring (19.9 ppg) and rebounding (11.5 rpg), and he ranks third nationally in rebounds and 13th in scoring, through games on Feb. 12. Stanford has never had a player finish higher than third on the national rebounding leaderboard (Curtis Borchardt, 2001-02).
Raynaud leads the country with 20 double-doubles, three ahead of the rest of the country and six ahead of every other power conference player. He is currently tied with Adam Keefe (1991-92) for Stanford’s single-season double-double record, and he is one of six power conference players to reach 20 double-doubles over the past five seasons, along with Zach Edey (Purdue, 2x), Oscar Tshiebwe (Kentucky, 2x), Oumar Ballo (Arizona), Joel Soriano (St. John's), and Armando Bacot (North Carolina).
He would join a select group of players to win both the league's scoring and rebounding titles, which has only been done 13 previous times in ACC history - nine of those players won ACC Player of the Year, and only twice since the 1950s (1964 and 1978) has the scoring/rebounding leader not been the ACC Player of the Year. The last five to accomplish the feat have all earned the ACC's top award: Marvin Bagley III (Duke, 2018), Tyler Hansbrough (UNC, 2008), Antawn Jamison (UNC, 1998), Tim Duncan (Wake, 1997) and Horace Grant (Clemson, 1987).
Raynaud has earned three ACC Player of the Week awards this season, and he was named a USBWA National Player of the Week on Nov. 19.
The Atlanta Tipoff Club administers the Naismith Awards, the most prestigious national honors in all of college and high school basketball. Named in honor of Dr. James Naismith, inventor of the game of basketball, the family of Naismith Awards annually recognizes the most outstanding men’s and women’s college and high school basketball players and coaches.