“My dad used to tell me, ‘A beast is still a beast no matter who they’re going against. You just have to be a beast and go fight.'”
Oscar Tshiebwe took his father’s message to heart, becoming college basketball’s most dominant force over the past two seasons. It’s impossible to look at what the 6-foot-9, 265-pound center has done during his time in Lexington and say he hasn’t been a beast. He earned consensus national player of the year honors as a junior after averaging 17.