MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — If not for a friend of his older brother, Oscar Tshiebwe may be the best soccer player in Congo that you never heard of.
He likely would have been just as popular back home playing soccer as he is now playing high school basketball for Kennedy Catholic in Hermitage, Pa.
“I was really tall, so everybody started calling me Michael Jordan, even though I was not playing basketball,” Tshiebwe said Saturday after scoring 25 points and adding 13 rebounds to lead the Golden Eagles past Morgantown High, 57-40, in the American Homes Classic.