Before his team played Kentucky on Saturday night, Kansas coach Bill Self attributed Oscar Tshiebwe’s almost surreal productive play this season to having room to operate around the basket.
“At West Virginia, they played with two ‘bigs,’ so you had another big man always around him when he was posting or whatever,” Self said.
At Kentucky, the other front line player is usually either Keion Brooks or Jacob Toppin. Both can play away from the basket, thus opening up space for Tshiebwe, Self said.
