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  • Jimmer Fredette
  • #7
  • Guard
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2011-12 Statistics

PPG
9.4
RPG
1.60
APG
2.5
EFF
+ 6.00
Born: Feb 25, 1989
Height: 6-2 / 1.88
Weight: 195 lbs. / 88.5 kg.
College: Brigham Young
Years Pro: R

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Background

NBA TRANSACTIONS:

Selected by Sacramento as a senior out of BYU with the 10th overall pick in the 2011 NBA Draft

Signed a multi-year contract with the Kings (12/9/11).

COLLEGE:

Set BYU career records for points (2,599), three-pointers (296), free throws (627), games played (139), 30-point games (24), 40-points games (6) and wins played in (112)

Established Mountain West Conference single game records in points (52), field goals and three-point field goals (tied)

Set both MWC season and career records in points, field goals and three-point field goals, as well as the mark for season scoring average

Posted the 11th-highest season point total in NCAA history as a senior (1068)

Paced Division I in scoring in 2010-11 with 28.9 ppg and won nearly every national player of the year honor including the Naismith, Wooden, AP, USBWA, NABC, Sporting News and Adoph Rupp awards

Recipient of the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award, consensus First-Team All-American by John R. Wooden, AP, Sporting News, NABC, USBWA, Yahoo!, Lute Olsen, SI.com and more

Received MWC Player of the Year and All-MWC First Team accolades

Scored 30-plus points in 16 games, three times scoring in the 40s and once in the 50s

Established a career-high with 52 points (22-37 FG) vs. New Mexico, converting a season-high tying seven three-pointers. His 33 points in the first-half established a MWC record and his overall point total was tied for the most in Division I this season

Against Utah, posted 47 points (16-28 FG, 9-9 FT, 6-9 3PT)

Facing rival San Diego State at home, registered 43 points (14-24 FG, 5-8 3PT, 10-11 FT)

Notched 42 points, four assists, four rebounds and two steals vs. Colorado State

Scored 39 points (12-25 FG, 7-13 3PT), six rebounds and five assists vs. UNLV

Posted a near triple-double vs. UTEP with 25 points, nine assists and eight rebounds

Led BYU in scoring as a junior with 22.1 ppg and 4.7 apg

Named First-Team All-MWC and earned All-District and District Player of the Year honors by the USBWA. An AP All-America Honorable Mention pick

A Wooden Award candidate, Naismith Trophy Midseason Candidate and Oscar Robertson Trophy finalist

Led the NCAA Tournament in scoring (29.0 ppg), and finished seventh and 41st in Division I in points per game and three-point shooting (.440).

HIGH SCHOOL:

Named first-team all-state by the New York State Sportswriters Association and the Times Union as a junior and senior at Glens Falls High School in Glens Falls, NY

Averaged 28.8 points per game while making 81 three-pointers and shooting .920 from the free-throw line as a senior and posted a season-high 46 points while scoring more than 30 points in 12 games

Ranked among the nation's top 75 shooting guards by ESPN.com

Section II and GFHS all-time leading scorer, ranking sixth on New York's all-time scoring list, with 2,404 points

Named first-team all-state by the New York State Sportswriters Association and the Times Union as a junior and senior

Honored as the 2007 Player of the Year by the channel 7 and 10 News while being named a Number 1 All-Star by channel 13

Led his team to a 25-2 record and the Class A State Championship game

Named the 2006 Times Union and Post-Star Chronicle Player of the Year

Averaged 29.3 ppg, making 76 three-pointers and shooting .830 from the freethrow line, while helping his team earn a 21-2 record as a junior and posted a season-high 43 points while scoring more than 30 points in 12 of 23 games

Led the Indians to the Section II Class A championship game, scoring 33 points, including nine in the final 1:36 to get his team to within one point before falling 54- 51

Averaged 30.1 ppg for a Glen Falls summer team that won the Stellar "Catch A Rising Star" Basketball Showcase in Allentown, Pa., earning MVP honors

NYSSWA fifth-team all-state as a sophomore

Also an all-state wide receiver as a junior

Named a Student-Athlete Scholar all four years.


Personal

  • Full name is James Fredette
  • Age 22
  • Son of Al and Kay Fredette
  • Sports hero of former Utah guard John Stockton
  • American Studies major at BYU

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