{"id":269334,"date":"2022-04-02T19:23:02","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T17:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=269334"},"modified":"2022-04-02T19:23:02","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T17:23:02","slug":"oscar-tshiebwe-named-ap-mens-college-basketball-player-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/oscar-tshiebwe-named-ap-mens-college-basketball-player-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Tshiebwe named AP men&#8217;s College Basketball Player of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press has announced the men&#8217;s College Basketball Player of the year, Kentucky big man Oscar Tshiebwe.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Another honor for Big O \ud83c\udfc6<\/p>\n<p>Kentucky\u2019s Oscar Tshiebwe takes home AP Player of the Year \ud83d\udc4f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CZpxnJHiWt\">pic.twitter.com\/CZpxnJHiWt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCAA March Madness (@MarchMadnessMBB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarchMadnessMBB\/status\/1509994634348531724?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tshiebwe is the second Wildcats player to win this award, after Anthony Davis.<\/p>\n<p>The former West Virginia big man finished the season with averages of 17.4 points, 15.2 rebounds (top since 1980, career-high with 28 against Western Kentucky&#8230;), 1.8 steals and 1.6 blocks, shooting 60% from the field and 69% from the free throw line.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Oscar Tshiebwe of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KentuckyMBB?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@KentuckyMBB<\/a> is the Associated Press men\u2019s college basketball player of the year.  <\/p>\n<p>Full story: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6ew49EgJsQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/6ew49EgJsQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tshiebwe shares key advice he received from his father: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kJGGvKsLX9\">pic.twitter.com\/kJGGvKsLX9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; AP Sports (@AP_Sports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AP_Sports\/status\/1509993501043298304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Tshiebwe has not yet decided whether or not to declare for the upcoming NBA Draft<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tshiebwe has not yet decided whether or not to declare for the upcoming NBA Draft<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":269333,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[401],"tags":[7200],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-269334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ncaa","tag-kentucky-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/04\/FPST-X1WYAEQw_7.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269334"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=269334"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=269334"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=269334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}