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It was an exciting year to watch the BYU Cougars Basketball team! And mostly because of Jimmer Fredette......A season high score of 52 points, he averages 28 points per game. He's got a killer cross-over and can certainly shoot from anywhere on the floor. He has been nominated for Player of the Year and has gotten the Cougars to the Sweet 16, the first time since 1981. (Unfortunately, they lost in overtime to Florida) He is impressive and everyone thinks so!

Buying a ticket to the Cougars is like seeing your favorite rock band for the 20th time. It’s not if he will be good tonight, but how good? Which of his greatest hits is on the set list? The drive past three defenders? A floating runner? A running floater? A fade-away made possible by his bulldozing shoulders?

“That’s a special talent,” says New Mexico coach Steve Alford, who was once quite a college scorer himself, “when no matter how strong, athletic, big, small [a defender] you throw at him, he still has that unique ability to create space.”

The most notable of that space involves backing up. Fredette’s trademark is a casual jump shot from distant areas usually reserved for low-ticking shot clocks. A new observer might wonder why BYU’s opponents use a half-court press. Because if you don’t meet the team’s star at half court, he considers himself open and you risk being “Jimmered,” which means being embarrassed by someone who by first impression looks destined for a UPS job.

He’s the guy who’d have to beat you 10 times in a row one-on-one before you believed it, the guy who plays with such casualness you wonder if he knows they’re keeping score. His legs and wrists are so strong that when he notices a defender glance to the side looking for a screen, Fredette has already released his shot by the time the guy looks back. His bottom half is sometimes not even facing the basket when he leaves the ground. Matt James

BYU and the rest of the nation have Jimmer-Mania!!

"I’m telling you a dangerous team in BYU. Why? Jimmer Fredette. Remember the name, Jimmer Fredette. Jimmer Fredette. The guy can flat-out score. Call Donovan up — 37 on the Gators. Fourty-nine against Arizona. If he’s stroking it, and they get to the free-throw line, and it’s a close game, they’re the best free throw shooting team in America." — Dick Vitale, ESPN

“Jimmer Fredette is a very special player. He is special in his demeanor on the floor and is special in his skill on the floor so it’s not surprising that BYU has been so successful during his tenure here."                                                 — Jim Les, Bradley

“Consider this your last and final warning, America. If you don't go out of your way to check out what the Cougars and Fredette do on a nightly basis -- their crazy, uptempo, let's-chuck-from-anywhere, oh-my-goodness-what-a-shot approach to every single game they play -- you're missing out on the most entertaining show college hoops has to offer. Call your cable provider, find a shady Internet site, find highlights on an obscure satellite TV channel, do whatever. Fredette's final college season ends in four months. You won't want to miss out.                                 — Eamonn Brennan, ESPN.com

Rarely does anything live up to the hype, but BYU's Jimmer Fredette did just that. Dropped over 40 points in front of plenty of NBA scouts. He didn't get his average of 27, no, he dropped 47 on San Diego state. He did it by any means necessary, including ankle breakers and "oh no he didn't" shots. He went from electric scorer to full on phenom. You know you've arrived when your name has been made into a verb. Jimmer Jimmered the snot out of these guys.   — Jim Rome, ESPN Radio ”