Kentucky Freshman Otega Oweh Overcome with Emotion After Receiving Prestigious Michael Jordan MVP, NBA Sportsmanship Award, and J. Walter Kennedy Award….

Otega Oweh has been Kentucky’s best player for the first five games, but this is not a hot take at this point. To be honest, you would be better off attempting to determine who has been the Wildcats’ second-best player thus far in Mark Pope’s first season as head coach.

Oweh continues to put up impressive numbers, as evidenced by his team-high 21 points without a single turnover in Friday night’s thrilling performance against Jackson State. At 16.2 points per game, he now leads Kentucky in scoring. With incredible shooting splits of 60.4/46.7/84.2, the 6-foot-4 junior is also averaging 3.8 rebounds and two steals in just 22 minutes per game.

However, few anticipated the two-year Oklahoma transfer to have this kind of start. As a sophomore with the Sooners, he was decent but not outstanding. When Oweh moved to Kentucky, he was a bit of an afterthought on a 12-man roster that had just been created. His name was not mentioned until the very last question during the postgame press conference on Friday, despite yet another fantastic night.

Otega is interesting, is not it?” Pope answered. “Otega is eight to twelve.” From the free-throw line, he is 4–4. He has three steals, zero turnovers, two assists, and twenty-one points. And he kind of does that every night, so we do not get to him until the very end of the press conference.

But in the realm of collegiate basketball, Oweh is undoubtedly not an afterthought, particularly when it comes to the scouting reports of the other team. Since his arrival, he has been remarkably

However, Oweh had to overcome many skeptics in order to get to this stage, where he is the top player at a Blue Blood program. When asked how many times in his basketball career he had been overlooked, Oweh responded, “It is a lot.” “I really will not get into that right now. All of those incidents happened in AAU when I was younger. Early in high school, such as your freshman year.