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He holds the school career record for games played, minutes played, points scored, 3-pointers made and field goals made. He holds the school record for 3-pointers in a game, set just last week, and is about to set the record for 3-pointers in a season.

Though you won’t find it in SLU’s record books, he will set another mark Saturday when SLU closes its regular season against Duquesne at Chaifetz Arena: Most Senior Days.

In 2023, after his fourth season at SLU, he came out for Senior Day, getting presented with the traditional framed jersey. In 2024, he opted not to go through the ceremony but the school still gave him a framed jersey. And on Saturday, he’ll do it again, though the school might not give him a framed jersey again.

“I’m gonna have a ton of jerseys from my times here,� Jimerson said.

Everything about Jimerson’s time at SLU has been big, and he leaves a sporting world very different from the one he started with. He arrived in 2019 from Richmond, Virginia, a time before COVID, before games played in empty arenas, before transfer portals, before name, image and likeness deals.

“I really came in to get an education and play some basketball,� he said. “And now it’s like, most guys are coming in to make money, and that’s what drives their decisions. And for me, that’s the exact opposite. So I’ve had a unique experience from that.�

If that sounds like something an old guy would say, well, Jimerson is 25, the grand old man of SLU basketball. A foot injury in his freshman season happened early enough for him to petition to get a redshirt season despite playing in 10 games, which got him a fifth season, and then the COVID-shortened 2020-21 season earned him a sixth season.

And he never left, which is one of the things that sets him apart to SLU coach Josh Schertz, who has coached at three schools during Jimerson’s college career: Loyalty. Not many players stay at one place for very long any more, let alone six seasons.

“With all the seismic changes in college athletics,� Schertz said, “he’s loyal enough to stay and that’s going to be cool that when he comes back, when Gib will always walk into Chaifetz, five years, 10 years, 20 years from now, people will know him and love him. He’ll be appreciated. And I think a lot of his stuff will be appreciated more in hindsight than it even is as we go through it.�

Saying goodbye has been difficult for Jimerson. In 2023, he went through the Senior Day ceremony because his roommate Yuri Collins did it.

“I knew I could have more years to play,� he said. “I didn’t really exactly know, and also I wanted to kind of spend it with Yuri and some of those guys that I came in with. I thought that would have been kind of special. So that kind of went into it as well.�

In 2024 he again wasn’t sure what the future held, but having gone through the ceremony the year before, he decided to sit that one out.

“I didn’t know what I wanted to do, so they just kind of made (a jersey) just in case,� Jimerson said. “But I just decided I had already done it the year before, didn’t know what I was going to do and I kind of had an idea I was going to probably play another year.�

This one, though, is it.

“This one is different just because this is my last year,� he said. “I’ve got no more years left.�

In his time at SLU, Jimerson has scored a lot of points, 2,356 and still growing, taken a lot of shots — based on the 22,000 he made one summer, it’s possible that Jimerson has taken close to a million shots over the six years in Chaifetz Arena — and a lot of classes. He has a BA in international business, a masters in business administration and a certificate in organizational leadership he finished this week. He laments the handful of non-A’s he’s gotten in his academic career.

With no classes left for him to take, it means he’s got his future staring him in his face. One game Saturday, which might not have any say in where SLU finishes in the Atlantic 10 Conference standings, a game in the conference tournament Thursday, and after that, who knows? His play the past two seasons has, however, increased the likelihood he decides to play after his college days are over. But he doesn’t want his college days to end, at least on the basketball court, so soon.

“I think everybody thinks about (what’s next),� he said. “Human nature is to kind of think about what does I think I’ve done a good job this year of balancing that and like not putting too much pressure on, like, hey, like, do I want to play after this season? And but also being cognizant of it and having options. I think a lot of times when guys get to their final year, they put too much pressure on themselves, and you kind of see that on the court.

“So for me, just obviously, I’ve always take it one game at a time and whatever happens, happens. I think for me it’s just focusing on the day in and day out of things. Shooting and just competing as hard as I can. And you know that stuff will take care of itself. And I don’t exactly know what I’m going to do, but I’ll have some options. And I have to make the one that’s the best for me. But we’ll see. We’ll see.�

But St. Louis now always will be a part of him. He didn’t go back to Richmond over the summer other than for a quick visit because St. Louis is where he, and his girlfriend, live.

“Obviously, as a freshman coming here from Virginia, I didn’t know what to expect,� he said. “I hadn’t really spent a significant time away from home, but I was embraced and I’ve really enjoyed my time here, and I want to continue to live here. It’s been awesome.�