Jimmer Fredette's last marquee performance -- a 47-point outburst against Utah last week -- was made all the more impressive by the fact that it came in a heated rivalry game on the road. It was the game that put Fredette squarely back at the top of the national player of year discussion, a game that generated so many highlights it was impossible for even casual fans to ignore.

Maybe we shouldn't have been that impressed.

It's not that Fredette wasn't awesome, because he was. (Oh, was he ever.) It's that, as the Deseret News points out today, it turns out that most of the big games Fredette has ever had have come -- believe it or not -- on the road. By quite a large margin, actually.

During his career at BYU, most of Jimmer Fredette's best performances have happened on the road.

The senior guard has scored 30-plus points 13 times in his career, and 12 of those games — such as his 47-point eruption at the Huntsman Center on Jan. 11 — have been away from the Marriott Center.

"I don't think too much about it," Fredette said when asked about the way he plays on the road. "I think the thing with me is, on the road, I take it as a challenge. It is tough to win road games in our league, or anywhere. So I take it on myself to be the starter, to get things going and be aggressive.

Now that is a strange statistic.

What gives? I'm really not sure. You could probably pass some of it off on mushy intangible stuff like Fredette's ability to rise to the occasion, or his desire to assert his superiority in hostile environments, or BYU's need for him to take over when the rest of the Cougars' shots aren't falling (which presumably happens more often on the road than at home). All of that stuff might have something to do with Fredette's road excellence. But it doesn't explain it in full. After all, you'd think a scorer as prolific as Fredette would have a few 30-point home games. Only one? That's just weird.

Maybe nothing explains it. Maybe it's just a quirk. One thing is for sure: Hosting BYU means being on the lookout for another Fredette classic. At this point, resistance almost seems futile.