UK star Tshiebwe set for 'minor' knee procedure

Kentucky guardant Oscar Tshiebwe, past season's statement National Player of the Year, volition acquisition a "minor" genu procedure, according to manager John Calipari.

Calipari offered fewer details connected Tshiebwe's injury, which helium posted astir connected Twitter.

"I person bully quality and atrocious news," Calipari wrote successful the archetypal of 2 tweets. "Good quality is Oscar had an unbelievable show astatine Pro Day and the scouts loved what they saw. He came backmost to make his crippled and go a much implicit subordinate and that's precisely what helium displayed Saturday night. They loved it.

"Bad quality is I kept him retired of signifier Sat. with genu stuff. He refused to beryllium retired Pro Day and balled out. I made him beryllium retired Mon. and get examined arsenic a precaution. He's going to person a insignificant 15-minute process to cleanable immoderate things up. Not a large deal, but nary dancing astatine Madness!"

Tshiebwe, a 6-foot-9 Congo native, filled his trophy furniture past spring, sweeping the Wooden Award, Naismith Player of the Year, NABC National Player of the Year and Pete Newell Big Man of the Year. The erstwhile West Virginia transportation tallied 28 double-doubles en way to averaging 17.4 points and 15.1 rebounds, starring the federation successful the second category.

While Calipari didn't connection a timeline for Tshiebwe's return, Tshiebwe has conscionable nether 1 period until the play officially gets underway.

Kentucky, ranked No. 4 successful ESPN's last Way-Too-Early Top 25, opens its play against Howard connected Nov. 7. The Wildcats past look Duquesne connected Nov. 11 earlier heading to Indianapolis for the Champions Classic connected Nov. 15 against Michigan State.