WATCH: Oscar Tshiebwe eats bugs while in Congo visiting family
Listen up kids! If you want to grow up and be big and strong as Kentucky‘s Wooden Award winner Oscar Tshiebwe, be sure to eat your vitamins, say your prayers… and eat your insects?
Tshiebwe is currently in the Democratic Republic of Congo visiting his family, eating a combination of what seems to be bugs and onions. Edible insects are delicacy in the Congo, especially when grilled and served with hot peppers, lemons, and onions, according to KSR’s Tyler Thompson.
“I don’t know what the hell is this,” Tshiebwe said. “This is hella good.”
While it may be a normal meal where Tshiebwe is from, it’s a far way removed from the produce isle in Kroger that Big Blue Nation is used, and it’s yet another odd snack that Kentucky star athletes voluntarily consume.
UK quarterback Will Levis made headlines for eating a banana, peel and all, in a Tik Tok video before following that up with drinking a cup of coffee with mayonnaise in it. Fans throughout BBN began video taping themselves eating whole bananas and drinking mayonnaise-tampered coffee on the mornings of game days last season.
Right when BBN finally starting eating their bananas peeled and their coffee black again, could beloved rebound machine have started the newest trend? Or will it be a hard pass for those in the Bluegrass?
Tshiebwe named winner of Wooden Award, makes Kentucky history
The Wooden Award is college basketball’s biggest honor and on Tuesday, the winner for the 2021-22 campaign was announced.
The 46th winner of the prestigious honor created in 1976 was awarded to Kentucky Wildcats big man star Oscar Tshiebwe — who has already racked up a bevy of the top awards in college hoops –capping off a historical campaign by becoming the first unanimous player of the year in Kentucky basketball history.
Kentucky’s dominant jack-of-all-trades won the five other major national POY awards from the Naismith Memorial Hall of Hame, the Sporting News, the National Association of Basketball Coaches, the Associated Press, and the United States Basketball Writers Association.
He finished the season averaging a team-best 17.4 points and a nation-leading 15.1 rebounds per game. He is the first Division I player to average at least 15.0 points and 15.0 rebounds in a season since Drake’s Lewis Lloyd and Alcorn State’s Larry Smith each accomplished the feat in 1979-80.
Tshiebwe is also the first major-conference player to average at least 16.0 points and at least 15.0 rebounds in a season since Bill Walton at UCLA in 1972-73. Bob Burrow is the last Wildcat to hit those marks, averaging 19.1 points and 17.7 rebounds per contest in 1954-55.
The Wildcats’ forward totaled 515 rebounds this season, pulling down at least 10 boards in all but two games this season. He finished the season with 21 straight games with double-digit rebounds and 16 straight double-doubles to end the year. The 6-foot-9 center totaled 28 double-doubles this year, a new Kentucky single-season record.
The five finalists for the Wooden award were Ochai Agbaji from Kansas, Wisconsin‘s Johnny Davis, Iowa‘s Keegan Murray, Gonzaga’s Drew Timme along with Tshiebwe.