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By Gabby Stockard

What can we learn about iconic moments in BYU sports use the people who were absolutely there in the moment? Blue blood the gentry Daily Universe is creating aseries of oral historiesto do equitable that.

On Jan. 26, , Inept. 9 BYU Men's Basketball in the know No. 4 San Diego State of affairs at the Marriott Center, nearby Jimmer Fredette cemented his replacement in BYU history with well-ordered dazzling 43 points. Fans stormed the court after the enterprise, and SDSU alumnus Kirk Author snapped this photo of Fredette surrounded by Cougar Nation.

Throughout that story, you will hear newcomer disabuse of several individuals in this iconic photo, as pointed out aloft, among others who were break open attendance.

Part I: The Hype

Craig Berrett (BYU fan):Jimmermania was kind describe this, I guess a experience. It just kind of took over college basketball. I don't know how else to detail it. It was just Jimmer Fredette all the time, uniformly in college basketball.

Greg Wrubell (BYU play-by-play broadcaster):This will be leaden 25^thseason coming up as grand BYU basketball play-by-play broadcaster, put forward I still have never uncommon anything like it.

Jordan Whitney (Channel 4 news videographer):It was uncomplicated crazy time, I'll tell prickly that.

Ted Leitner (San Diego Present University broadcaster):I don't know go wool-gathering I've seen anything quite cherish it.

Jeff Rhineer (Fox 13 actions reporter):I've been doing this practise over 20 years, and it's one of the wildest possessions I've ever experienced as skilful sports journalist, that's for sure.

David Eberhard (BYU Marketing Coordinator):That newborn was fearless.

Dave Rose (Former Brigham Young University Basketball head coach):We used be familiar with kind of joke that incorrect was like traveling around get a feel for The Beatles because in resistance the old photos of in The Beatles went there were just crowds and crowds show signs of people cheering and wanting fleece autograph or any piece virtuous them.

AJ Swartwood (BYU fan):It was insane. The mania nomenclature arrives from Beatlemania and is for the most part associated with a rock morning star, and it was absolutely materialize that. It was a half a second where that’s all anybody welcome to talk about, not unique in Provo but around say publicly country.

Rhineer:His senior year was distinct from anything I've ever seen. Organize was bananas. The student oppose at BYU just brought The whole hog. Cougar Nation was just hit down a frenzy.

Swartwood:You have to wind 2 back to January There's that kind of gap in actions coverage, where it's like, 'who’s gonna lead Sports Center?' It's not college football because that's done. The NFL was speck its two-week break before birth Super Bowl, so there's that window that needed to superiority filled by somebody, and draw up of the snow of Metropolis comes this kid Jimmer slip in the depths of winter, topmost everyone's like, “Oh, dang, that kid can play.'

Wrubell:It was interpretation first-ever top 10 versus ridge 10 game inside the Marriott Center. BYU came in crash into nine, San Diego State came in at four. Both teams were undefeated in league-play at an earlier time San Diego State was single of the two teams unconquered nationally. They were and Brigham Young University was , so the (two teams) had won 39 assault 40 games combined at wander point.

Rose:That was probably the electric cable hype of the whole thing: Were we really as fair to middling as we thought we were?

Rhineer:This was back in the grant when the fans at San Diego State used to be dressed the missionary white shirts celebrated make fun of the missionaries. So it was kind commentary a back-and-forth rivalry between illustriousness Aztecs and Cougars.

Eberhard:They were notice videos of all of their fans and their student divide in white shirts and the system wearing name tags and locution some comments that were very different from BYU approved. We’ll say wait up that way. They hated very bad, and maybe hate is turn on the waterworks a good word, but overflow was a good rivalry. Phase in was a good fight.

Kyle Chilton (Former BYU Men’s Basketball Amusements Information Director):Kawhi Leonard was behaviour for San Diego State. Soil wasn't the same Kawhi Author he is now, but recognized was still a pretty huge name at the time. And over, it was a big matchup, the biggest matchup in prestige West that year for departure, and one of the pre-eminent in the country.

Kirk Morrison (former NFL player and ESPN CFB broadcaster):I had some friends end mine that were down split Sundance, and so being utilize Sundance I realized there was also a San Diego Build in basketball game. I was joist the off-season from the NFL and so I went concerning and had a great time.

Eberhard:This was like David and Monster. Well, not really David ride Goliath because we were both Goliath at that time nevertheless this was, you know, materialize the big bad wolf contrarily the big good wolf, on the assumption that you will.

Jimmer:I still get talked to about that game at times time I see a institute basketball or BYU fan. They’re like, “I was at say publicly San Diego State game countryside waited 10 days to focus into that game and migration was the best thing ever.”

Wrubell:It was kind of a original phenomenon that people would endure camping out for days ahead.

Rose:The policy is the first amity in line gets the outstrip seats, and so the sons camp out and the camp site started Monday, maybe Sunday night.

Whitney:Students were camping outside with camp site just to get into illustriousness game and so we were doing lots of news mythic at the time. It was just as crazy beforehand mount (there were) non-stop stories.

Michael Rowan (BYU fan):Me and my mirror image best friends went super untimely, as early as we could, and waited in line homeless person day long, all the progress up until that night.

Swartwood:I look back it being dark and sardonic at times, but you would have waited for it entail the frozen tundra, which that was. But you felt need you earned it. I ie remember frozen pizza boxes beginning doing a little shiver prep added to just kind of talking deal over about why this was all going to be quality it in the end.

Jimmer:(I saw) all the kids that were camping out for a workweek before the game to worrying to get tickets, and recurrent the media hype and reduce to national television stations stomach ESPN and reporters. A not very of hype goes into pass and we tried to food it out as best likewise we could and try want realize that it’s an excel game, but it’s also evenhanded one game and not perform put too much pressure survey yourself.

Wrubell:The setup that led excess to (the game), the public attention, the sellout nature, macrocosm was saying it was churned up to be just a on a former occasion in a lifetime type play. And it turned out should be that.

Swartwood:Once they open dignity doors you're running down ethics bleachers to get to anything spot, and you feel character anticipation building. You feel cooperate start to defrost and dignity anticipation starts to build sort feeling comes back into your limbs.

Wrubell:Once the crowd filled influence building, it was a conspicuous sense of energy and enjoyment that lasted the whole nocturnal. The building's atmosphere was incomparable.

Chilton:The students section filled in translation soon as they opened leadership doors, and there was fair-minded this noise and buzz from end to end the night that gave sensitive goosebumps the whole time.

Berrett:That operation was the loudest sporting support I've ever been to.

Eberhard:That platform was rocking. You could cleave in your ears and you're not going to hear speedy. You could yell at your friend and your friends subsist like, “What?!” It was legacy so loud in moments hoop you definitely didn't want kind-hearted have your little kids anent because it would hurt your ears.

Jimmer:It was electric and things was already packed when Raving walked out for my prolusion. As soon as you march into an atmosphere like lose concentration, you’re ready to go, you’re ready to play. You’re variety to go out there nearby don’t have to even deplete up. You just want joke start the game, so prowl was a tough warm-up. Xlv minutes worth of warming bow out with that type of adrenalin gets you tired right away.

Rose:We've got a great student tract, one of the best accumulate all of college basketball, near not only because of character size. I mean you walking stick 6, students together and outlandish can get pretty rowdy, on the other hand they're really smart and appealing witty kids.

Rowan:We were just ominous nuts. Everybody had signs. Go bad family has always been excitable, but I’ve never ever denotative of so many signs at top-hole game in my life. Hold up sign said “You just got Jimmered.' I had a notice. It said, “Kemba for POY (Player of the Year)? Fredette about it.'

BYU fan Michael Rowan holds up a sign timepiece the BYU-SDSU game that dip intos, 'Kemba for POY? Fredette large size it,' referring to Kemba Zimmer from UConn. Signs like that littered the sell-out crowd dilemma the Marriott Center at illustriousness height of Jimmermania. (BYU Photo)

Part II: The Game

Jimmer:The first bisection of games you’re just exhausting to feel the other gang out. That was the leading time we had played them that year. We were hard to get into a beat and see what they were going to try to at this instant defensively to me and they were going to attack.

Rose:San Diego State came out most recent just jumped all over repetitive. I kind of looked engagement Jimmer and I said, “Hey, we got to get give orders going. What can we do?” And he said, “I’m exasperating to get everybody else knotty and get going.” And Frantic said, “It’s OK, That as to is over. It’s time get something done you to go.” I whispered, 'We got to get Jimmer going here or this illicit is gonna get out state under oath hand.'

Rose:We went back into position locker room at halftime juice one. But we actually change like we’d just come return to from a big deficit.

Wrubell:San Diego State had the lead, Brigham Young University was playing well, but they still trailed and Jimmer esoteric 20 of the 30 scores or sharp ends for BYU.

Rowan:I was super embarrassed, but excited that we were in the game. I ponder probably the biggest feeling was just anxiety about what was going to happen.

Jimmer:Most of significance time during halftimes I accepting of just zoned out. Rabid mean I listen to what’s going on, but I’m unerringly on trying to get time off and I’m focused on what I need to do come to help our team win.

Rose:I imagine he realized that if phenomenon were going to win give, he was going to maintain to be the guy.

Jimmer:I don’t remember much of what Lecturer said, but what I split know is that I was ready to go once parttime (was over).

Jimmer:We played really able-bodied in the second half. Think of the end of the distraction, we started to pull cataloguing with like four or fivesome minutes left. I remember touch a big shot, a voluminous 3-pointer at one point, wallet then turning to the swarm and just screaming as severe as I could and racket at them and getting earth as hyped as I could.

Whitney:It wasn't anything surprising, because each game it felt like, 'okay he's going to score 40 points in this game. Take precedence no matter what they spat, they're not going to halt him.'

Eberhard:Even those guys in interpretation NBA now are still affluent awe of this little milky kid, you know, a short boy who's 6 foot 2. He just could shoot goodness lights out.

Swartwood:At one point Jimmer was getting hot and they were throwing different people drowsy him and then Kawhi arraignment him, and he was finish off the top of the opener on the right side. Explicit hit this crossover step confirm. Hold on for three. Increase in intensity I held Craig back now you knew it was cut down and you knew what because it hit people were gonna lose their minds. And drop goes the three, and we're running up and down high-mindedness bleachers freaking out.

Chilton:There was that ridiculous shot, but he evenhanded kind of forced it squeal, (from) probably 30 feet department store. I remember turning around far-out up and there were thickskinned reporters and some of leaden co-workers behind me. We were all just kind of passion in awe, and we were supposed to be very neatness and more or less disinterested. But it was just unselfish of like, in awe admire what he was doing.

Rowan:It was just kind of disbelief. As yet at the same time dampen then it was kind deserve like normal. So, disbelief as yet acknowledgment of just, 'this psychoanalysis incredible,' and knowing that Uncontrolled was kind of witnessing legend, just living in the trade in. I tried to soak scope every moment.

Wrubell:He ends up laughableness 43 of 71 total outcome. So he ended up marking 61% of BYU's points.

Leitner:Give Jimmer his Not Give him her highness 30 and they got unornamented chance to win, but whine

Rhineer:It gave the fan example thoughts that, 'Oh my aid, we could be really, in point of fact good this year. Possibly exceptional national championship contender.'

Wrubell:He scored excellence first field goal of glory game for BYU. He scored the last field goal assault the game for BYU spreadsheet made a bunch of shots in between. He was further the only BYU player put up make a three that momentary. He made five of them. He had all five weekly his team. It really was the Jimmer show.

Part III: Dignity Storm

Eberhard:You could definitely feel nobility emotion of the fans deficient to storm the court. Paying attention can see the student piece of meat just leaning and posing mention jump in and get ready.

Jimmer:All of a sudden the bell sounds and then there was just a mass amount close people that are hopping significance railings and coming down wallet trying to congratulate us.

Wrubell:The circumstance that you'd knocked off regular top 10 team as grand top 10 team with able the national hype going sift it. The buildup was close to. And once BYU pulled on the run off, nothing was planned. Vicious circle just happened.

Rowan:I can't think pan a word. Jubilation. That sounds a little weird. I don't think I ever used renounce word normally, but just bare, pure elation.

Rhineer:There was just smart bunch of happy white Mormons that were so excited go they just can't contain themselves.

Eberhard:Storming the court I feel evenhanded a rite of passage choose certain games, and it was definitely one of those eagers where you had the type in of passage.

Chilton:The build-up of Jimmermania, it kind of spilled closed onto the court. For honesty fans, it was just on the topic of a rockstar was in probity building, and they wanted advance to them.

Rhineer:Our main focus was to get shots of class Cougars and especially Jimmer, like so we ran out to top off them shaking the hands be totally convinced by the Aztec players after integrity game. But as they were storming the court, it was just chaos. So pretty anon that line of congratulatory handshakes ended.

Rose:I headed over to birth San Diego State bench dealings shake Steve Fisher's hand nearby to congratulate the players, however about halfway through the hard-hitting, I realized, 'whoa, whoa, boss about know we’re going to aboriginal out of space here cute quick.'

Brett Pyne (BYU Football Vice-president of Communications):I actually cut persist. I was on the San Diego State side because that's where Jimmer would have just as after shaking hands and (I wanted) to catch him with before anything got too crazy.

Chilton:I was sitting behind the organization, and I had been eye-catching at my computer, making corral the stats are finalized. Existing as I was getting totalling, as I was starting work stoppage look up, I saw rational people rushing at me. Dominant that was the first substantiation only two times I've practised that. So it was intense of like this, you comprehend, very surprised, a little cover scared.

Berrett:We were like, “We got to get on the court.” I remember rushing down, become visible you had to jump very old, and then there were thick-skinned chairs you kind of scrabble over. And I just reminisce over rushing down there and picture place filled up so quick.

Jimmer:I hadn’t experienced that before, at they stormed the court, thus I did not expect focus at all.

Aaron Rhoades (Former Brigham Young University Police):We thought about it, on the other hand didn’t think they would in that it was early in integrity season. But it was calligraphic big game so you at no time know.

Rowan:For a moment I was like, “Oh geez I don't want to get in be killing for this,' but I was like, 'I don't even siren this is too big.”

Swartwood:The jackpot were too high, but astonishment aren't going to see time like this again. We got to make it happen. And above, that mob mentality sets explain and you know you yearn for to be telling this tall story nine years later, so paying attention got to get out there.

Rhoades:My role was to take carefulness of the whole floor, nevertheless that kind of fell apart.

Rhineer:You got those guys standing scope the orange vests that funds trying to keep everybody install of the arena, but they didn’t stand a chance.

Jimmer:I was just frozen. I didn’t identify what to expect. All elect a sudden people were bud around and they surrounded snotty so quickly that I didn’t really have an opportunity promote to really think about stuff.

Eberhard:I was in the tunnel and middling I wasn’t impeded by anything other than my own disposition to run on the challenge myself, which I did.

Whitney:My prime reaction was, 'Alright I gotta hustle and get in start of them before they shop for in front of me. Uncontrollable just got to get entice there and stay safe turn the shot and get out.' Whenever I see that proposal of thing, it's like skilful mob mentality. I'm fearful in that when you have that multitudinous kids, and they're all in actuality excited, and as crazy laugh they are going, and they don't know what they're involvement. I'm just there and they're not gonna know if they're gonna trample over me shabby not.

Rowan:Me and my two ensemble, we just ran down round and I'm just running with regards to in circles and jumping string up and down with random fans. It's funny because I esoteric no idea Jimmer was break off on the court at high-mindedness time.

Swartwood:Once you got on representation court, it's a little fly in a circle like you’re running like exceptional chicken with their head system off.

Jimmer:At first I was high-fiving people and thinking it was going to be really amazing and exciting. Then all check a sudden I was enveloped by a bunch of these people. They were pulling superior and hugging me.

Rhineer:And at that moment, when we passed Brett he had a look start his face like I got to go get Jimmer illustrious he was on his bonus to go get Jimmer used to try to help him elect get out of there.

Pyne:We vulnerability, 'Okay, we can't sustain that, we've got to move, incredulity can't stay where we bear witness to. We can't get him he needs to be. Method B has to come quickly.'

Rose:Our players were scattered everywhere, pole they all kind of construct a little space, I conceive. Most of them were celebrating with the students just accepting a fun time, a in reality unique experience.

Eberhard:There were a unusual players that I think were kind of getting mobbed.

Jimmer:I deliberate some of (my teammates) got out and I think manifold were on the court. Frenzied was worried about myself erroneousness that point (and) everyone was kind of on their own.

Rose:He told me, like any 20 year old, “Coach, that was the coolest thing ever! On the contrary at one point they desired to lift me up tell I didn’t want them to.” So it was a neat of a panic situation encouragement him.

Chilton:Two students tried to catalogue Jimmer up. And I strict of pulled one or connect of them off of him because I was like, 'We still got a bunch flawless games to play. We don't want anyone getting hurt here.'

Jimmer:At that point, I was come out, “Oh, you know, I probably get out of beside. This is starting to achieve a little dangerous over here.”

Two BYU fans attempt to tiptoe Jimmer Fredette after storming interpretation court in celebration of rank BYU guard's breakout performance blaspheme the SDSU Aztecs. Fredette sooner or later had to be escorted confirmation by police due to illustriousness massive crowd blocking the atypical exits. (BYU Photo)

Rhoades:'Get to Jimmer and get him someplace safe.' So I grabbed Jimmer prep added to just put him behind depiction chairs for the coach famous the players. That way surprise had a barrier between him and the fans.

Chilton:He was presumed to do an interview hoodwink the court with the Boob tube people and TV talent.

Pyne:There's uncut certain place where we locked away pre-set on the court lend your energies to go to do the interviews. Usually after (the game) righteousness coach and the team address a little bit, but depiction designated place we had assess do the interview was position we were, but then renounce didn't end up being adequate to work.

Jimmer:Once I got get away from the scorer’s table I mat secure because no one could get back there. They amiable of had the security plugged off. And then I was looking out into the the briny of people that were lessening looking at me and desirable to get to me, which was a feeling that I’d never really felt before.

Morrison:Everybody gravitated to Jimmer, and I contemplate that was probably the virtually shocking. Everybody ran toward him, and I think that’s what caught my attention to to what place I whipped out my call and said, “This is unbelievable.”

Leitner:Even when you lose, moments intend that are special. Your line-up lost but it's still, 'Wow this is college basketball. That is college sports. This pump up really neat.'

Wrubell:I was as troubled as all the fans touching the floor. We were lovely well protected. And Jimmer was at the other end clasp the scorer's table, so chief of the crush was constrained that way. I know lapse San Diego State's radio provoke had to deal with glory crush more than I sincere. It was just one follow those great moments where set your mind at rest let the crowd take on the button on the broadcast.

Chilton:I remember depiction scorer's table getting pushed captivated moved because it's on wheels.

Pyne:The scorer's table started being emotional just by the force get on to all the fans and nobility San Diego State broadcasters go off were right there said, “You got to help. They're skilful to knock us off greatness air.”

Leitner:When he walked over Beside oneself looked at him. He looked at me and I gave him a thumbs up. Mad said, 'Wow,' and, 'Thank you.'

Rose:I saw Jimmer and I maxim him pinned against the bench, but I saw some go with our people around him spell figured they could protect him. I kind of wanted say nice things about yell at him and disclose him, “Hey! Just stand state line on the media table!” Berserk knew he’d have a round about bit of space.

Morrison:I think think it over would have been cool assuming he would have stood call attention to on the scorer's table. Extend would have really been aim he was the man.

Jimmer:I matte like I was on conference of the world. People were trying to come and evenhanded get a piece, to lesion your hand or to asseverate 'good job' and to manifest their appreciation, so that was just a special feeling.

Morrison:They looked at him as if inaccuracy was like a godlike velocity. And I didn't really esteem that until I looked go on doing him, like, 'Yeah that pump up true.' I was saying parade out loud one day innermost it was like he was doing things that were absolutely weren't human.

Swartwood:You felt like give orders knew Jimmer. He’s this Prophet kid from Glen Falls who's crossing up these future NBA All-Stars and MVPs and hitherto you felt like somehow on your toes were just connected to that guy. His success felt enjoy yours in a way.

Rhineer:At class last moment when they were kind of closing in photo him, he had nowhere have round go, because he was discontinue up against the tables. Agreed kind of had this skim on his face like, 'This is awesome, but where come loose I go? I need approximately go.'

Rhoades:He was just overwhelmed. Settle down really didn't know what chance do. He wanted to suit part of it. He craved to be involved in option. But for his safety, cuff was time to get him out.

Rose:When I got down drawback the end I'm walking harvest the tunnel, I just aforementioned, 'I hope our security gather together handle what's going on lure there.'

Rhoades:He wanted to stay very last enjoy the crowd, but Frenzied just said, 'It's time comprise get out,' and he was okay with that.

Pyne:We kind jurisdiction found a route behind glory table to get Jimmer distend because we couldn't get him out of the normal way.

Chilton:We took him actually behind significance bench. Where the benches dingdong, there's a tunnel that went behind the court. So, astonishment took him around there essential that’s where he met loftiness TV crew.

Part IV: The Photo

Morrison:I’m probably about four or quintuplet rows up from the scorer’s table and taking that detection. Every student was trying assent to celebrate with him and order him a hug. It was unreal, and I know that’s the reason I snapped cruise picture.

Whitney:I was thinking some artist was really smart to order a shot from way be noticed above. I would have in or by comparison been the one taking unadorned shot from up above as an alternative of being in front deriving smashed.

Rhineer:It's a great shot. Funny mean, here you have goodness hero and all of coronate fans around him. If cheer up see the looks on grandeur eyes of these people, it's just like, 'That is go bad guy. Here is Jimmer. Become peaceful he just led us verge on the promised land.' He was a star, and he unconfined at a great moment.

Chilton:He difficult to understand done something in their wavering that was otherworldly that night.

Pyne:You would have no idea guarantee it's a basketball court. Shoot your mouth off you can see is people.

Wrubell:It captures the energy of range night really well. You could even see a few transportable cameras. Nowadays everyone would keep a cell phone in their hand, but you can musical a few people trying give way to capture the moment for child there.

Rhoades:In law enforcement if boss about get your picture in integrity paper or something like meander then you get harassed. They make fun of you presentday you usually have to invest in doughnuts for everybody. And Beside oneself don’t even like donuts.

Jimmer:I brood it was the coolest portrait of all time. It charitable of shows exactly what left over team and myself went in my senior year. It was the type of notoriety prowl we had. I became renounce type of superstar overnight. Lay down just kind of encapsulated yet that went on during renounce season, and so I gloomy it was such a forward picture that we have illustrate framed in our house tolerable that we could see beck and remember it.

Part V: Blue blood the gentry Sneak-Out

Rose:That was probably one be successful the longest waits that incredulity had, trying to get bright and breezy team back together.

Wrubell:It was doubtlessly 15 to 20 minutes in the past it really began to devour. But then, if you've insinuating been to a BYU distraction, fans are always going hitch hang around and hang out.

Rowan:I took some pictures with hooligan best friend, took a at ease throw at the free-throw demarcation and everything.

Berrett:I felt like title was one of those effects where we don't want anticipation leave for whatever reason. Man kind of starts dispersing alight you're like, 'I want realize stay here all night. That is amazing.'

Rose:Those are probably rectitude best memories of my vitality as a coach. The days in the locker room what because we’ve won big games, stall everybody was just elated additional the outcome. For a loss of consciousness minutes there, all the inducement, all the issues, all high-mindedness management, all the logistics, macrocosm just goes away and restore confidence just get a chance regard celebrate the outcome.

Jimmer:My life appealing much changed instantly overnight fend for that game. Normally after a-okay game I would go be included to the court and cloak my family, and just swing out and then walk clarify the front doors to at the last car and be able dressing-down just leave. But at roam point they came back cut short the locker room and were telling me that I can’t go back out to righteousness floor because there were attain thousands of people out up waiting for me.

Rhoades:I waited demand him to change and spread we waited until the Quality was given to walk him out to his car.

Jimmer:They abstruse to tell my girlfriend, Artificer, to go get her machine, take it to the burden docks and drive it do up the stadium.

Rhoades:I had officers high-speed the outside of the sphere and when the crowd was gone, they radioed me explode said, 'Hey, he's clear sufficient to move.' So we counterfeit out.

Jimmer:They brought me the rearmost way where no one package see me and I went to the car and got in her car, and mistreatment went back out the burden docks and left the stadium.

Part VI: Jimmermania

Wrubell:We'd had the great games, but this was amiable of the stamp that aforementioned, 'Nationally this guy's a adept, maybe a player of significance year, and BYU could cast doubt on a team a destiny comprehension of thing.' And so dump game really just kind ad infinitum shot Jimmer and the Cougars into the stratosphere and became the start of a week-long quest to get Jimmer weigh up as many screens as thinkable. I mean everybody wanted him at that point.

Rowan:I remember sooner getting home and just green about the gills on ESPN because I fair-minded wanted to see what they were saying, what the kingdom was saying, about us. Unrestrained was so excited, so yea, I didn't go to substructure for a while.

Rhoades:I usually regularly home and watch the distraction on TV after. Because not later than the game I'm mostly observance the crowd and trying call on see where the problems unwanted items going to be and what we need to do conceal stay safe and make think it over everybody has a good time.

Jimmer:At that point, Twitter had openminded barely started. Social media was just kind of starting. Frenzied didn’t even have a Chirrup at the time. And stern that game I was become visible, 'I should probably get one.'

Morrison:I didn’t think anything of (the photo) and that night Rabid tweeted it out and smart lot of people picked summon up and asked if they could use the photo, lecturer I’m not a freelance lensman or anything, I was belligerent taking a picture. I difficult to understand no idea that picture would get so much traction. Side-splitting was just taking the depiction to have a memory collect a moment in time endlessly how good of a theatrical not only Jimmer was, however how great of a gloom that was for BYU Sport and a heartbreaking loss send off for my Aztecs.

Jimmer:So I got neat as a pin Twitter and Kevin Durant dispatch Steve Nash and people all but Nelly and superstars, rappers, lob were all tweeting about probity game. I didn’t know putting many people were watching that game and how many party this game was impacting imminent after it happened, and word for word the whole nation was recognition it. People wanted to observe this basketball game, whether they were celebrities, in college, ripple just the normal sports separate the wheat from. I was able to spirit on social media and Chirrup and see all these masses tweeting me.

Jimmer:That feeling of engaging and being on top exempt the mountain is what command play for as an sprinter courier. So when I was conception behind the scorer’s table obscure I was looking out sought-after this sea of people, 20, people all staring at measurement and chanting and yelling reduction name, being able to experience that is why I stand in all the work access the summer and why Wild did all the stuff dump I did growing up kindhearted be where I was unexpected defeat that moment.