Oscar Tshiebwe is Kentucky's 21st Consensus First Team All-American

Oscar Tshiebwe is in elite company. Thursday morning he became the 21st Consensus First Team All-American in Kentucky basketball history when the US Basketball Writers Association became the fourth outlet to name him to their All-American Team.

Kentucky’s last Consensus First Team All-American was Tyler Ulis in 2016. Twelve players have earned All-American honors in the Calipari era, but Tshiebwe is just the fifth player to earn the “consensus” distinction.

Tshiebwe was joined on the USBWA’s All-American Team by Wisconsin’s Johnny Davis, Kansas’ Ochai Agbaji, Illinois’ Kofi Cockburn and Iowa’s Keegan Murray.

Averaging 17 points and 15.1 rebounds per game, Oscar is in a battle with history as he helps the Wildcats advance on the road to the Final Four. The nation’s leading rebounder is on pace to become the first player in NCAA Division I college basketball to average 15 points and 15 rebounds per game since the 1980 basketball season. He could also become the first major-conference player to average 16 and 15 since Bill Walton in 1973.

Tshiebwe is already all over the UK record books. Currently in the middle of a 15-game double-double streak, in the SEC Tournament he broke Dan Issel’s single-season record with 27 double-doubles. Oscar has already achieved so much, yet he still has so much to play for, a Wooden Award and a National Championship.

Kentucky Basketball Consensus First Team All-Americans

• Basil Hayden (1921)
• Burgess Carey (1925)
• Forest Sale (1932, 33)
• LeRoy Edwards (1935)
• Bob Brannum (1944)
• Ralph Beard (1947, 48, 49)
• Alex Groza (1947, 49)
• Bill Spivey (1951)
• Cliff Hagan (1952, 54)
• Johnny Cox (1959)
• Cotton Nash (1964)
• Dan Issel (1970)
• Kyle Macy (1980)
• Kenny Walker (1986)
• Jamal Mashburn (1993)
• Ron Mercer (1997)
• John Wall (2010)
• Anthony Davis (2012)
• Willie Cauley-Stein (2015)
• Tyler Ulis (2016)