{"id":326299,"date":"2025-10-23T11:01:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T11:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/326299\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T11:01:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T11:01:14","slug":"jay-bilas-has-otega-oweh-and-mohamed-dioubate-on-preseason-awards-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/326299\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay Bilas has Otega Oweh and Mohamed Dioubate on preseason awards list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Kentucky has the opportunity this season to have one of the most versatile and deepest rosters in college basketball.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">With an All-American talent in Otega Oweh, combined with a great transfer portal class and recruiting class, Kentucky may have one of the most talented rosters in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/story\/_\/id\/46662949\/jay-bilas-preseason-all-america-teams-mens-college-basketball-2025-26\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:ESPN\u2019s Jay Bilas recently unveiled his three All-American teams;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">ESPN\u2019s Jay Bilas recently unveiled his three All-American teams<\/a>, along with his All-Defensive and All-Freshman Teams. Otega Oweh is on his Second-Team All-American list, while Mohamed Dioubate is on his All-Defensive Team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Below are all of the players who made up those two teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Second Team All-Americans<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li\/>\n<li\/>\n<li\/>\n<li\/>\n<li\/><\/ul>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>All-Defensive Team<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li\/>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\">Tamin Lipsey (Iowa State)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\">Miles Byrd (San Diego State)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li\/>\n<li\/><\/ul>\n<p class=\"\">The selection comes on the heels of Oweh being named a Second-Team All-American by CBS Sports. This is the first preseason honor of any kind for Dioubate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Oweh, Dioubate and the Wildcats will get their first opportunity to play a game Friday night when they host No. 1 Purdue in an Exhibition game at Rupp Arena. Bilas has two All-Americans from the Boilermakers: Braden Smith (First-Team) and Trey Kaufman-Renn (Third Team).<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Friday\u2019s game will tip off at 6:00 PM ET on the SEC Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kentucky has the opportunity this season to have one of the most versatile and deepest rosters in college&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":326300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[39022,1339,34505,79659,84841,4345,2628,162568,19785,357,84846,49194,162565,162564,162567,1317,1337,1338,27638,15189,3890,62,162566,1229,74091,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-326299","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-aj-dybantsa","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-braden-smith","11":"tag-cameron-boozer","12":"tag-darryn-peterson","13":"tag-houston","14":"tag-jay-bilas","15":"tag-joseph-tugler","16":"tag-kansas","17":"tag-kentucky","18":"tag-maliq-brown","19":"tag-miles-byrd","20":"tag-mo-dioubate","21":"tag-mohamed-dioubate","22":"tag-nate-ament","23":"tag-ncaa","24":"tag-ncaa-basketball","25":"tag-ncaabasketball","26":"tag-otega-oweh","27":"tag-purdue","28":"tag-san-diego-state","29":"tag-sports","30":"tag-tamin-lipsey","31":"tag-tennessee","32":"tag-trey-kaufman-renn","33":"tag-united-states","34":"tag-unitedstates","35":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115423142713867405","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}