Ten years ago this month, Jimmer Fredette was preparing for his senior season at BYU.
It turned out to be one of the most memorable and successful basketball campaigns in school history. The Cougars won 32 games and advanced to the Sweet 16 for the first time in 30 years. Fredette earned consensus National Player of the Year honors after Jimmermania swept the nation during that 2011 season.
Right now, the 31-year-old sharpshooting guard is back in China, playing for the Shanghai Sharks of the Chinese Basketball Association, where he played from 2016-19. Fredette, who is known as “The Lonely Master” in China, spent a short stint with the NBA’s Phoenix Suns before playing for Panathinaikos in Greece of the EuroLeague last year.