John Calipari offers Oscar Tshiebwe update ahead of Michigan State game
By Keith Farner
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John Calipari and the Wildcats are getting set to play Michigan State on Tuesday night and Kentucky may get one of the stars of college basketball back for the game.
Calipari told reporters on Monday that Oscar Tshiebwe, who has been sidelined since he had a knee procedure last month, will practice on Monday and Calipari will have a better idea on if Tshiebwe will play Tuesday. “My guess is he plays 3-4 minutes per stretch, if he plays. … Knowing him, he wants to play.”
Kentucky also plays Gonzaga on Saturday.
Tschiebwe was the consensus men’s college basketball player of the year last season, and coming into this season, he was a unanimous selection along with Gonzaga big man Drew Timme in The Associated Press preseason All-America team. Tshiebwe is the ninth AP national player of the year — Bill Walton and Ralph Sampson did it twice — to return for another season, according to Sportradar, and the first since Tyler Hansbrough came back to lead North Carolina to a national title in 2009, per the AP.
H/T Jack Pilgrim.
A former newspaper veteran, Keith Farner is a news manager for Saturday Down South.
