Oscar Tshiebwe

Oscar Tshiebwe is the first African-born Wooden Award winner. The 2022 SEC Player of the Year, Tshiebwe not only averaged a double-double, but did so with a considerable margin -- averaging a team-best 17.4 points and a nation-leading 15.1 rebounds per game. He is the first Division I player who averaged at least 15.0 points and at least 15.0 rebounds per game since Drake's Lewis Lloyd and Alcorn State's Larry Smith each did so during the 1979-80 season, and the first major-conference player who averaged at least 16.0 points and at least 15.0 rebounds for a season since Bill Walton at UCLA in 1972-73. He became the first Wildcat to do it since Bob Burrow, who tallied 19.1 points and 17.7 rebounds per game in 1954-55. Tshiebwe was also the only major conference college player who averaged at least 1.6 blocked shots and 1.6 steals per game during the regular season.