Arizona State basketball's Remy Martin earns National Player of the Week honor

Arizona State basketball point guard Remy Martin already earned Pac-12 recognition for his play last week in the Sun Devils' road sweep of Stanford and California.

Now he's getting national recognition.

On Tuesday, Martin was named the Oscar Robertson National Player of the Week by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association.

He was named the Pac-12 Player of the Week on Monday.

ASU has only had one previous winner of the national award, Shannon Evans in 2018.

Martin, a 6-foot point guard, averaged 23 points in the two contests in which he shot 67% from the field (16-24) last week. That included 5-of-6 from long distance.

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In Sunday's 80-75 win over Cal at Haas Pavilion, Martin netted 22 points on 7-of-10 field goals attempts along with five assists. He scored 15 of those points in the final 11:08 of the contest.

Earlier in the week against the Cardinal at Maples Pavilion, Martin scored 24 points on 9-of-14 shooting in a 74-69 ASU victory with 11 points in the final 7:17 of the game.

Martin, who leads the conference in scoring at 19.6 per game, has now scored 20 points or more in nine of ASU's 12 conference games. In the three games he did not hit 20, he managed 19, 15 and 12.

The road sweep was ASU's first in more than a decade and first in the Pac-12 era. It also extended the Sun Devils' conference win streak to five games, the sixth-longest among major conference programs nationally and longest for the program since February of 2009.

ASU (18-8, 8-4), now just a half game out of first place, has four of its last six games at home with the Sun Devils bracing for a matchup at 7 p.m. Thursday at Desert Financial Arena against No. 14 Oregon (20-6, 9-4). They will host Oregon State (15-10, 5-8) at 6 p.m. on Saturday.