In his first game in a year since his season-ending injury, redshirt freshman Landry Shamet ran point guard roles and finished with 12 points, seven assists and one turnover.

Since November 2015, Shamet has been out with a stress fracture in his left foot that leaving him with ankle stiffness. Head coach Greg Marshall declared him out for the remainder of the year after three games. Shamet took a medical redshirt or the rest of the 2015-16 season.

“I felt like I got right back to where I was,” Shamet said. “I’m just looking forward to getting back to the defensive end and getting those stops, especially with what we got going. I’m just happy I’m back and playing with these guys.”

Marshall started Shamet at point guard to replace All-American Fred VanVleet from last season in Saturday’s exhibition against Augusta (Ga.). After Shamet’s per- forance, Marshall praised him for his heart on the court.

“I thought Landry was out there battling,” Marshall said. “He lead us in minutes with 32.”

Shamet was one of the five starters in Saturday’s game, which was considered one of the larger starting teams in recent memory, with an average starting lineup measuring 6-foot-7. Shamet, at 6-foot-4, joined shooting guard Zach Brown, 6-foot-6 in the backcourt.

They were joined by forwards Markis McDuffie, 6-foot-8, and Rashard Kelly, 6-foot-7, and 6-foot-10 center Rauno Nurger.

“We talked as a staff in front of the team,” Marshall said. “Each coach on a secret ballot wrote in the three guys that tried to do it the way we like it done as close to every day, every practice as possible, and those were the only five names that came up on the ballot.”

In the last five minutes of the second half of Saturday’s game, Augusta was down only one point in what could have easily been turned over to an Augusta lead. However, Shamet was there to defend his team and give the Shockers a more comfortable lead in the 73-67 victory.

“(Defense) was definitely one of the positives that not only I took, but I hope everyone and the coaching staff took from the game,” Shamet said. “That was a really good late-game situation for us, you know, a little bit of pressure.”

Shamet said he knew there would be a lot of down screens and running down the baseline against 5-foot-9 Augusta point guard Keshun Sherrill, who finished with a game-high 33 points, but he said it still felt like a bit more than what they were expecting.

“He was a relentless scorer,” Shamet said. “It was tough but a good challenge. I like that challenge it kind of got me going early. That’s all I was thinking about, just trying to get a stop.”

Shamet and WSU start regular season play at 8:30 p.m. Friday against South Carolina State at Koch Arena.