 In his first season back from the mission field in 2012–13 as team captain, he scored 20 or more points in his first six games, and was the WCC's leading scorer that season, both overall and in conference games.He is only the second BYU sophomore to have scored 1,000 or more career points, after Danny Ainge.He was named WCC Player of the Week, SI.com and NBCSports.com National Player of the Week on December 31, 2012 after scoring 42 points against Virginia Tech.