A year removed from earning the Pac-12’s Sixth Man of the Year honors, Arizona State sophomore Remy Martin returned to the spot where he had found so much success a year ago. The bench.
Martin’s transition back to the role of the sixth man was not the sort of benching coaches often hand down to players playing poorly. The conversion was more to take advantage of the sophomore guard’s energizer bunny-like play that created energy off the bench so efficiently a year ago.
During Martin’s Co-Pac-12 Sixth Man of the Year campaign, the then-freshman scored in double figures 20 times, as he finished the season at an average of 9.