Oscar Tshiebwe is incredibly confident in his ability to battle for loose balls and absorb contact around the rim. If you ask him, there isn’t a single person in the universe who can prevent him from hauling in a 50/50 ball.
Well, except for one individual.
“I don’t know. Probably God?” Tshiebwe said during Wednesday’s Media Day.
After transferring from West Virginia to Kentucky during the middle of the 2020-21 season, the 6-foot-9, 255-pound Tshiebwe has been immersed in the program he’s continually called his “dream school“. He wasn’t eligible to play in the second half of last season–although he did give it his best shot–but established himself as the Wildcats starting center for 2021-22 before practice even began.