North Country native makes it to March Madness

Sports Illustrated is reporting on Glens Falls native Jimmer Fredette’s cinderella run into the NCAA brackets, playing for Brigham Young University.

Fredette is from Glens Falls, New York, a very small city at the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains, four hours dead north of New York City, roughly three hours dead south of the Canadian border.

According to the article, Fredette earned some big city street toughness playing against ballplayers incarcerated in one of the region’s state prisons.

Together T.J. and Jimmer played on teams that would scrimmage at Great Meadow Correctional Facility, a maximum security prison 15 miles north of Glens Falls. Asked if it was intimidating, Fredette said, “The first time, it was.” (Of course it makes Utah on the road seems a lot less so).

Fredette’s BYU squad plays Texas A&M this afternoon at 12:30 pm eastern.