TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Just minutes after No. 20 Florida State sealed its 88-72 win against Wake Forest on Wednesday night, Seminoles guard Xavier Rathan-Mayes looked to the stands for his dad with tears in his eyes.

He had good reason to be emotional: The father-son team had just made Atlantic Coast Conference history.

Rathan-Mayes, a junior, became the 46th Florida State player to score 1,000 career points, doing so in the win against the Demon Deacons to join his father Tharon Mayes in the Seminoles' 1,000-point club, becoming the first father-son tandem in ACC history to accomplish such a feat.

"Man, it feels amazing," said Rathan-Mayes, who scored 23 points. "When I committed to Florida State, I wanted to do something special in honor of my dad. Just to be in the 1,000-point club and be the first father-son duo in ACC history to do that, it means the world to me."

Tharon Mayes, who played for the Seminoles from 1988-90, scored 1,260 career points.

"For me, I enjoyed playing. But (seeing Xavier reach 1,000 points) -- this was better than when I was playing," said Mayes, who embraced Xavier in the stands moments after the horn sounded. "He can get emotional, but Xavier doesn't always show his emotions. I think for him, (reaching 1,000 career points) was a big accomplishment."

Florida State (13-1) has now won nine games in a row, marking only the second time the program has had such a streak in head coach Leonard Hamilton's 15 seasons. The Seminoles also improved to 10-0 at home this season with the win and tied the program's best 14-game start since the 1988-89 season.

Contributing to that was guard Dwayne Bacon, who also scored 23 points. And he and Rathan-Mayes, who added seven rebounds and three steals, were a big part of the late 17-0 run that helped hand Wake Forest (9-4) its fifth straight loss in Tallahassee.

"Down the stretch, I thought Florida State made some really good plays -- more plays than us," Wake Forest head coach Danny Manning said. "We did some good things; good enough to go into halftime with a one-point lead (40-39). I thought for 32 minutes of the game, we competed at a high level. But they go on a run in the second half, go up by 10, and we weren't able to get back into the ball game."

Wake Forest was led by guards Keyshawn Woods and Bryant Crawford with 16 points each. Crawford added four rebounds and three assists, but his seven turnovers proved costly. Wake Forest had 16 turnovers as a team.

Woods, who scored 11 of his team's first 19 points just 10 minutes into the game, cooled off from there and said Florida State "hit us in the mouth and we didn't respond."

"We definitely let them off the hook. We were up by one at halftime, then had a five point lead (in the second half)," Woods added. "They just outplayed us."

It didn't help that the Demon Deacons also suffered a big blow early in the first half when 7-foot-1 center Doral Moore hobbled to the sideline with an apparent leg injury and did not return. Manning said he "came down hard" and wasn't able to go again, but the coach did not know the status of his big man's health heading into Wake Forest's next game Saturday at home against Clemson.

Two other Wake Forest players also reached double figures in the loss. Forward Austin Arians added 11 points and guard Mitchell Wilbekin notched 10 points. Demon Deacons forward Dinos Mitoglou, who was coming off a career-high 28 points last week against LSU, led the Wake Forest in rebounds with seven. But he was held to just five points on 2 of 6 shooting.

Wake Forest leading scorer, forward John Collins -- who came in averaging a double-double at 17.3 points and 10.4 rebounds a game -- was held to just two points three rebounds.

The Seminoles also benefited from plenty of trips to the line in this one, going 23 of 31 from the charity stripe, while Wake shot just 16 foul shots, making 10.

Florida State guard C.J. Walker added 13 points off the bench thanks to 3-of-6 shooting from 3-point range. The Seminoles also got 12 points and nine rebounds from freshman forward Jonathan Isaac.

"This is a conference on any given night any team is capable of winning," Hamilton said. "The league is so good that the tradition has brought other teams like Florida State up to a higher level. We had a few more bodies that they didn't have. The quality of our depth was a big factor."

After trailing for much of the first half and part of the second half, Florida State used a mammoth 17-0 run to put the game away with just over eight minutes to go. Wake Forest, which went on a five-minute scoreless drought during that Seminoles spurt, has now lost every ACC road opener since the 2006-07 season.

After a furious first-half pace, both teams went cold for the first 2 1/2 minutes of the second half until Bacon snapped the drought with an and-one and briefly gave Florida State a two-point lead.

Wake quickly regained the advantage and was ahead 66-61 with 8:57 remaining in the game, but the Seminoles went on an 9-0 run to grab a 70-66 edge, highlighted by a Bacon breakaway bucket and a 3-pointer by Isaac that rattled around before falling.

But the Seminoles weren't done.

That run gave Florida State a 78-66 lead -- their largest of the game at that point -- with 5:12 left.

Woods snapped the five-plus-minute scoreless streak by the Demon Deacons with a layup with under four minutes to play.

But by, then it was too late.

"I want to win, and I know our history here with Wake and I want to get us back to being a winning program. I'm just trying to do whatever I got to do game-in, game-out to help us get to that point," said Woods, whose team looked poised to pull the upset before Wednesday after a 110-76 rout of LSU in its last game out, during which the Demon Deacons scored 67 points in the second half alone. "Against LSU, we were making shots the whole game, playing defense, taking charges and actually wanting to play defense. But tonight, we didn't do what we did against LSU -- and we lost.

"As a team, we have to figure out what we want to do, who we want to be. Our identity. Are we going to be one of those teams that's gonna be up and fold once we get hit in the mouth, or are we going to be a team that responds. (And next game) is a big test because Clemson is the same way. We just need to go focus on our defense going forward."

NOTES: The Seminoles' next contest at No. 12 Virginia on Saturday marks a brutal stretch of games for Florida State. Five of the Seminoles' next six games are against Top 25 ACC opponents ... The ACC has the most teams ranked in the AP Top 25 poll with six -- No. 5 Duke, No. 6 Louisville, No. 9 North Carolina, No. 12 Virginia, No. 20 Florida State and No. 24 Notre Dame ... Florida State now leads the series against Wake Forest 25-24. ... Florida State came into Wednesday's game ranked No. 20 in both the AP Top 25 and USA Today Coaches' polls.