A year ago at this time, Kentucky men’s basketball was mired in its worst season since the Great Depression, and all Oscar Tshiebwe could do was watch.
Oh, and talk. He did a lot of talking.
Tshiebwe arrived in Lexington with about six weeks to go in a season Kentucky fans would like nothing more than to forget ever happened. As a transfer who played 10 games early in the year at West Virginia, Tshiebwe wasn’t eligible to play for the remainder of that 9–16 season. But as he watched from the sidelines as the Wildcats floundered through a COVID-19-impacted season, the big man made it known to his teammates that things would be different next year.
