MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Four-star Rivals big man Oscar Tshiebwe, a 2019 top-50 prospect from Hermitage, Pa., narrowed his recruitment list to eight schools Tuesday, with West Virginia taking an expected spot among the finalists.
The Mountaineers gave Tshiebwe his first Division I offer in July 2016, when the 6-foot-9 Congo native was attending Mountain Mission School in Grundy, Va. Now he’s entering his second year at Kennedy Catholic, the same program that produced current WVU center Sagaba Konate. Tshiebwe is even living with the same host-family legal guardians who housed Konate.
Yet Tshiebwe is not a lock for West Virginia.