Tyrese Martin has shown he can make winning plays in his short 11 game career in Storrs. The transfer from URI is UConn men’s basketball’s second-leading scorer and leading rebounder.
The 6-foot-6, 215 lb. wing out of Allentown, Pennsylvania has scored double digit points in each of his last six games and has a pair of 20-point games already this season.
He numbers closely mirror what he was able to do last season at URI, except for one thing – his shooting has drastically improved.
Despite moving up a level of competition from the Atlantic 10 to the Big East, Martin has improved his 3-point shooting by more than 15% from last year (32.