"This was my first time to visit Mississippi State and I liked everything about it," said the 6-foot-10 center. "I felt like I would fit in there well. I feel like they can improve my game. And I liked watching the players in the game yesterday. They came to eat!"
He committed to Mississippi State head coach Ben Howland Sunday morning, prior to leaving.
"I told Coach Howland that I wanted to be a Bulldog," said Tshisumpa. "He was very excited about it."
Tshisumpa's guardian, Jazzy Hartwell, came on the visit with him.
"He really liked it there," said Hartwell. "We were scheduled to visit more schools but he liked it so much at Mississippi State that he wanted to commit to them."
According to Hartwell, Tshisumpa had strong interest from a lot of colleges.
"He had a lot of schools showing a lot of interest in him," said Hartwell. "New Mexico State, New Mexico, Georgetown, Baylor, LSU, Oklahoma State and too many others to name."
Tshisumpa was set to take all of his five official visits prior to visiting Mississippi State.
"He was also set to visit New Mexico State, New Mexico and a couple of others that we would pick from the ones wanted him to visit," said Hartwell. "But he liked Mississippi State so much he decided to go ahead and commit."
In my January 4th interview with San Jacinto College head basketball coach Scott Gernander explained the type player that Mississippi State is getting in Tshisumpa.
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"Obviously when you read about him it is about his defense, which is what he does best," said Gernander. "His defensive presence is why people want him. With that being said, we have had a bunch of guys the last couple of years who all they could do was block shots. But he is better than those and one of those is now at the University of Houston. While he can block shots at a high level, I actually think he is underrated offensively. I thought he was going to be terrible offensively, but he has a nice little jump hook to the basket. It might not look pretty all the time but he gets it to go in. If he catches anything around the basket, at our level, it is at least a dunk or you are going to have to foul him. So, he will give you something offensively. He also has solid hands, is a big, strong powerful guy who is 250 pounds. He also plays hard."