Oscar Tshiebwe took a brief detour before arriving in Lexington to play for John Calipari and the Kentucky Wildcats. Instead, the 6-foot-9, 255-pound McDonald’s All-American signed with West Virginia out of high school, a decision he’d come to regret rather quickly.
He was physically in Morgantown, but his heart was always in Lexington.
“When it came time to sign, I don’t know where my mind was,” Tshiebwe said back in June. “… I was always like, even when I played for West Virginia, ‘I wish I could play for Kentucky, that was my dream school.