Awards
- Second Team All-Big 12 (2026)
- Jerry West Shooting Guard of the Year Mid Season Top 10 List (2026)
- Lute Olsen Award Finalist (2025)
- 2x NABC First Team All-District (2025, 2026)
- First Team All-Big 12 (2025)
- Big 12 Most Improved Player of the Year (2025)
- 2x USBWA Oscar Robertson National Player of the Week ( Feb. 25, 2025, Jan. 13, 2026)
- 3x Big 12 Player of the Week (Feb. 24, 2025, March 2, 2025, Jan. 12, 2026)
- 2x Big 12 Starting Five (Jan. 12, 2026, Feb. 2, 2026)
- Academic All-Big 12 (2025)
- NABC Honors Court (2025)
- Academic All-Big 12 First Team (2024)
- Terry's Chocolate ESPN Events Invitational MVP (2025)
- Rady Children's Invitational All-Tournament Team (2024)
BYU Highlights
- Appeared in 128 games including 63 starts
- Averaged 12.1 points per game, shooting 50.2 percent from the field, 38.7 percent from three and 78.8 percent from the free throw line
- Scred 20-plus 26 times including a trio of 30-point performances highlighted by 33-point performance at No. 14 Kansas
- 5th most five 3-pointer games (10)
- 8th in career 3-point field goals made (205)
- 8th in career 3-point field goal attempts (530)
- 9th most career three 3-pointer games (30)
- 12th in career steals (133)
- 16th most career 20-point games (26)
- 17th most career 30-point games (3)
- 17th highest career 3-point field goal percentage (.387)
- 17th on all-time scoring list (1,544)
- 19th most games played (128)
- 20th highest career free throw percentage (.788)
- 20th most career steals per game (1.039)
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
