Awards
- Academic All-Big 12 First Team (2024)
- Rady Children's Invitational All-Tournament Team (2024)
BYU Highlights
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Appeared in 68 games including three starts
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Averaged 7.6 points per game, shooting 49.6 percent from the floor, 35.0 percent from three and 70.1 percent from the free throw line
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Scored in double figures 21 times including 15 as a sophomore in 2023-24
- Scored career-high 20 points against Georgia State (12/16/23) and Iowa State (3/6/24)
Personal
- Son of Lisa and Rich Saunders
- Has four older sisters
- Married to former BYU women's basketball player, Sierra Johnson
- Served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Seattle, Washington
- Vice President of Fouss Foundation, a non-profit helping build basketball courts in Mali
- Taught himself to be a woodworker/wood turner.
- Learning and speaks four languages (English, Malagasy, Spanish, French)
Before BYU
- Spent final two seasons of high school career at Wasatch Academy
- 2020 Best of State Male Athlete
- Three-star recruit by 247Sports and Rivals
- Rated as No. 45 shooting guard in Class of 2020 by 247Sports Composite
- First Team All-State as a sophomore at Riverton High School
- Second Team All-State as a freshman at RHS
- Recruited by Creighton, Stanford, Utah State and Oklahoma