Jimmer Fredette

Jimmer Fredette earned college basketball’s most prestigious honor after averaging a nation-leading 28.9 points while taking the BYU Cougars to the Sweet 16, a 32-5 record, and a regular season Mountain West Conference title. He also shot 89.4 percent from the free throw line and led his team in assists (4.3). In 2011, he was the MWC Player of the Week seven times and he averaged 32.7 points in three NCAA Tournament games. Fredette is the first BYU player to win the Wooden Award since Danny Ainge in 1981. A native of Glens Falls, NY, the 6-2 guard broke Ainge’s BYU scoring record, finishing his career with 2,599 points, including a school-record 1,068 points in 2010-11. He had 15 30-point games and four 40-point games during his remarkable senior season. Fredette had 3,761 points, followed by Connecticut’s Kemba Walker with 3,356 points.