37 points. The most points ever scored in a game by a freshman player. More than Danny Ainge or Mark Bigelow did in their illustrious careers. A career like theirs is what BYU fans hoped for when Nick Emery put up the best performance of his young career against San Francisco on February 11, 2016, and the heir to Jimmer’s scoring throne seemed possibly found. Emery would go on to average close to 17 points a game which falls second all-time behind Ainge for a freshman. A solid but semi-inconsistent sophomore season followed his All-WCC Freshman year, but Cougar fans still hoped that this southpaw deep threat was one of, if not the cornerstone player of the future.
BYU Basketball: The tale of two Nick Emery’s
