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18. BYU vs Nebraska (2009)

And who says BYU basketball teams can’t play great defense?

By this point, Jimmer Fredette was in his third year in a BYU uniform. He’d earned the starting guard spot at the beginning of his sophomore year, averaging over 16 points a game, and picked up right where he left off his junior year.

But this game wasn’t about Jimmer.

Yes, he scored a cool 23 in workmanlike fashion, mostly in the paint or at the line. But against a good team in the finals of an early holiday tournament, the combined defensive talents of Jackson Emery, Chris Miles, and Noah Hartsock led to an early 31 point lead that the Huskers could never quite overcome.

Others on that team: freshman Tyler Haws, and coming off the bench: Brandon Davies, Michael Lloyd Jr, and the Brazilian Bomber, Jonathan Tavernari.

That’s the kind of depth that Dave Rose would love now.