Xavier Lipscomb: Leaving Basketball Legacy as "X"

Audrey Owens  

After four years at Mount St. Mary’s University, Xavier Lipscomb finishes out his career satisfied after a total of six years of collegiate basketball. 

From his role in the team winning their first ever conference championship in 2025 to his All-MAAC awards during preseason polls, Lipscomb’s contribution to the team has not gone unrecognized by the program or his teammates.   

Since he was young, Lipscomb has had a love for the game. He started playing at the age of three when his dad provided him with a mini-Fisher-Price basketball hoop for him to practice on.  

“I always had a basketball in my hand growing up,” Lipscomb fondly remembers.    

After doing it for so long, the natural course of action was continuing to compete in high school and college.  

He began his Division 1 career at Radford University, playing his freshman and sophomore years with the Highlanders. After a coaching switch, Lipscomb decided to enter the transfer portal, eventually signing with Mount St. Mary’s University.  

He notes he is grateful for the Mount coaching staff that saw something in him as a point guard that the new Radford coach wasn’t looking to continue to develop.   

Lipscomb’s Mount career worked out for the best. During the 2024-2025 season he started all 36 games scoring double digits 10 times. Some of his highlights were scoring seven assists against Maryland and a career high 13 assists in the Mount’s win over Sacred Heart.  

During the 2025-2026 season, Lipscomb was the team leader in free throws with the most accurate percentage, averaging 0.88 from the line.    

Aside from the sport itself, Lipscomb found a home within his teammates. His favorite Mount Basketball memory was the 2025 MAAC championships and the March Madness run.   

“Just that whole experience,” Lipscomb said. Getting to see “all the work you put in from the summer to March really paid off and just being with your teammates each and every day. Those relationships that I’ve built are forever, and you know I love those guys, so I would say that’s the best moment.”   

This respect is reciprocated in the way his teammates speak about him.  “I was super grateful I had him as my teammate,” Anastasios Rozakeas (C’28) said. He mentioned how impactful of a leader Lipscomb was on and off the court.               

“From the first day I came he was always helping me, advising me, helping me to know the system we had here at the Mount.”   

According to teammate Patrick Haigh (C’27) the three words he would describe Lipscomb as are: “genuine, hardworking and charismatic.”    

“I would just tell my younger self always believe in yourself. Don’t let anybody’s doubt in you affect you. You know, just enjoy every moment because I’ve played for six years but it really flew by so fast.”         

He reminisced about being a freshman getting Covid tested every day and how every moment went by quickly.   

After his time at Radford and the Mount, Lipscomb can finish out his career proud of his tribulations and accomplishments.  

“Live in the moment,” Lipscomb finished by saying, as his parting advice.­