Awards
- Lute Olsen Award Finalist (2025)
- NABC First Team All-District (2025)
- First Team All-Big 12 (2025)
- Big 12 Most Improved Player of the Year (2025)
- USBWA Oscar Robertson National Player of the Week ( Feb. 25, 2025)
- 2x Big 12 Player of the Week (Feb. 24, 2025, March 2, 2025)
- Academic All-Big 12 First Team (2024)
- Rady Children's Invitational All-Tournament Team (2024)
BYU Highlights
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Appeared in 103 games including 38 starts, 35 of those coming during his junior season
- Averaged 10.6 points per game, shooting 50.7 percent from the field, 39.2 percent from three and 77.4 percent from the free throw line
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Scored 20-plus 15 times including a career-high 30 in win over Arizona State on New Year's Eve.
- 49th on all-time scoring list (1,093)
- 7th most five 3-pointer games (5)
- 14th most three 3-pointer games (19)
- 15th most 3-point field goals (141)
- 15th most 3-point field goal attempts (360)
- 16th highest 3-point field goal percentage (.392)
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)
- Great grandson of the founder of Ore-Ida and creater of the Tater Tot, Nephi Grigg
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