On record: RM makes mark at USU

Jaycee Carroll has gone from Wyoming to Chile to basketball immortality in Logan.

The shooting guard from Evanston, Wyo., who signed with Utah State in 2002 before serving an LDS Church mission in Chile, became the school's all-time leading scorer last Saturday.

Carroll passed Greg Grant's mark of 2,127 career points during the Aggies' 79-64 win over Idaho at the Smith Spectrum. Appropriately enough, the milestone basket was a 3-pointer. Carroll was the best 3-point shooter in the conference last year (43.2 percent), and is again leading the WAC in that category, shooting better than 50 percent from 3-point range.

In an article published in Sunday's Deseret Morning News, Utah State coach Stew Morrill praised Carroll, saying the senior could be the author of a book on being a successful basketball player.

"He could do a chapter on how to be a good kid," Morrill said.

Carroll was an Associated Press All-American honorable mention last season. He considered entering last summer's NBA draft, but instead decided to return to Logan for his senior — and record-breaking — season.