San Diego State, you just got Jimmered

Something happened to San Diego State's stately perch as an undefeated basketball team Wednesday night in the Marriott Center.

Trite and trendy as it sounds, the Aztecs got Jimmered.

Boy, did they ever get Jimmered. It's a new urban legend dictionary verb. Folks are starting to use it coast to coast. It means a guy just scored on you in via distance, as in different zip code. Or in a torrential down pour.

The kid's 43-point performance prompted the NBA's Oklahoma City's Kevin Durant to tweet: "Jimmer Fredette is the best scorer in the world."

ESPN's SportsCenter saluted. CBS College Sports network wanted an encore.

"He's the best scorer in the world," answered Fredette, throwing up a cloak of humility at Durant, the College Player in 2006 of the Year from Texas.
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BYU fans go crazy for BYU's Jimmer Fredette.
Stuart Johnson, Deseret News
BYU fans go crazy for BYU's Jimmer Fredette.
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No. 9 BYU defeated No. 4 SDSU 71-58, riding the back of their scoring machine — the kid with the baby face and dagger shot.

The San Diego State Aztecs will be celebrating his departure. Fredette scorched Steve Fisher's team like a match in a gas can. Again.

Fredette's points came in every fashion imaginable. From distance. From the line. From inside the paint.

In the past three Aztec games, Fredette has scored 33, 26 and 43. That's an average of 34 points per game. And BYU won.

That is simply insane. SDSU plays defense, manly defense.

In Wednesday's monumental showdown between the Cougars and Aztecs, Fredette scored 1.1 points a minute.

Crazy.

The kid turned it on the Aztecs like a faucet.

It was nuts.

BYU's looked stagnant offensively through the 10-minute mark of the first half. Jackson Emery and Noah Hartsock kept misfiring. Only Fredette and Brandon Davies could score. Emery and Hartsock would end the first half 1 for 7 from the field. Nervous. Off.

It was in this drought Dave Rose turned to his star. A guy who could go one on five if he had to. It was time to challenge the Aztecs.

Fredette started attacking D.J. Gay off the dribble, setting him up with crossover moves. He drove through switches, got past Gay and slipped past Malcolm Thomas for scores inside he paint.

Incredibly, Fredette scored 15 of BYU's final points of the first half and gave the Cougars a 30-28 lead until Kawhi Leonard hit a trey in the closing seconds to give the Aztecs a 31-30 halftime lead.

"I felt comfortable with my shot, kept being aggressive and my teammates worked to get me open," said Fredette.