Of Car and Driver’s top five ultimate luxury sedans in 2025, three of them are of the Rolls-Royce variety. They come with a hefty price tag — all three exceed $350K retail — but you can’t get much nicer in terms of statement vehicles, earning 9.5 or 10 out of 10 grades in the official C/D Rating. They combine performance, comfort and craftsmanship at the highest level.
That’s how the most iconic voice and face in college basketball history describes Kentucky star Otega Oweh. Pretty cool, right?
Now, he’s not the only one on the list — Dick Vitale dropped his complete Preseason All-Rolls Royce Teams with 10 players included — but No. 00 certainly belongs. The Wildcat was named to Dickie V’s 2025-26 Preseason All-Rolls Royce Second Team, the legendary personality raving about Oweh’s talent and big-shot ability.
“Big Blue Nation loves this guy,” he said of Oweh. “He’s strong, explosive and clutch. He hit not one, but TWO game-winners last year. He’s the Wildcats’ Rolls Royce slasher.”
Couldn’t have said it better myself — although he’d be on KSR’s Preseason All-Rolls Royce First Team, but we won’t hold it against him.
“I don’t hand out Rolls Royce honors to just any player, unless he’s the kind to make you stand up and say, ‘Are you serious, baby?!’” Vitale wrote.
The complete list of luxury talents in college basketball this season:
First Team
PJ Haggerty, Kansas State Wildcats
Braden Smith, Purdue Boilermakers
JT Toppin, Texas Tech Red Raiders
Graham Ike, Gonzaga Bulldogs
Bennett Stirtz, Iowa Hawkeyes
Second Team
Trey Kaufman-Renn, Purdue Boilermakers
Donovan Dent, UCLA Bruins
Nick Martinelli, Northwestern Wildcats
Emanuel Sharp, Houston Cougars
Otega Oweh, Kentucky Wildcats
Vitale also named his Preseason Diaper Dandies, a list of newcomers that Kentucky fans will be plenty familiar with as past recruiting targets and future opponents.
Diaper Dandies
Darryn Peterson, Kansas Jayhawks
A.J. Dybantsa, BYU Cougars
Cameron Boozer, Duke Blue Devils
Nate Ament, Tennessee Volunteers
Mikel Brown Jr., Louisville Cardinals
Darius Acuff, Arkansas Razorbacks
As for Oweh, Mark Pope believes the senior guard can be “the top defensive player in the country” and “has a chance to become an elite-level playmaker.”
“He’s going to grow — he’s going to grow exponentially again, and he’s going to help us win a ton of games,” he told KSR. “He’s going to play great basketball and he’s going to put himself in even better position to be a pro.”
Now he’s got the Rolls-Royce emblem next to his name as the likely Preseason SEC Player of the Year.
