Quincy Jones / Coach Q

- Basketball Scouting and Evaluation Coordinator for @CoachQScouting
- Lead Scout and Evaluator for @swopesathletic1
- 13 years College Coaching experience

[Frank Cusumano @Frank_Cusumano]

Judge Jason Sengheiser has granted a temporary restraining order for Robbie Avila to play. As part of the relief, he has ruled the NCAA allow him to be rostered at SLU.

[ILLHoopsScoops @ILLHoopsScoops]

2028 Hoops Scoops Underrated and Unsigned List of Guards. A few players headed into the season, who we feel are a little underrated at this point.

[Ryan Hammer🔨 @ryanhammer09]

Kellen Thames is as rare as they come in modern college sports.

Born & raised in St. Louis & now played all 5 years at SLU even with a coaching change & now that loyalty is paying dividends for him🫡

[ercoach Finnin @finnin43]

Cyclones basketball 🏀 less than a month away.

[Quincy Jones / Coach Q @CoachQScouting]

Bulletin board material

[stu durando @studurando]

Getting five players from one team on preseason all-conference teams is rare, so not surprising it didn't happen for SLU. But the absence of Quentin Jones from the top 18 in the Atlantic 10 is hard to fathom.

[Green Bay Men’s Basketball @gbphoenixmbb]

The Ahmere Carson half!

He scored 𝟮𝟳 of our 38 first-half points on a perfect 10-for-10 from the field and 5-for-5 from deep 🔥🔥

#RiseWithUs

[Danny Turner @CoachDanTurner]

Great experience scrimmaging vs ICC today, plus Officials educating. #Let’sGo

[Quincy Jones / Coach Q @CoachQScouting]

He was raised very well. 💪

[FearBuck @FearedBuck]

Emotional moment at a Pennsylvania high school yesterday after a student crowned Homecoming King surprised everyone by passing the honor to the runner-up.

[Quincy Jones / Coach Q @CoachQScouting]

@Sports4Illinois @DevinClev2 @LaLuBasketball @BradBealElite @MizzouHoops Congratulations

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

AMAZING! Republican election officials denied NC A&T campus an early-voting site. Students marched about 45 minutes each way to vote ANYWAY!

Put up barriers to voting, and don’t be surprised when people get angry, get organized, and bring even MORE voters to the polls!

[Joe Tipton @JoeTipton]

NEWS: 4⭐️ Devin Cleveland has committed to Missouri, he announced. 

The 6-foot-3 shooting guard is a top-35 overall recruit in the 2027 class.

https://t.co/n1QhKGGQ8f

[Matthew Rocchio @RoccSTLreal]

News + context #Billikens

[Sam Kayser @KayserHoops]

North Carolina head coach Mike Malone and assistant coach Chuck Martin are expected to be in to see 5⭐️ Brady Pettigrew today, source tells @LeagueRDY.

Coaches from Illinois and BYU were in yesterday to see the talented five-star guard.

The #10 overall prospect in the @SCNext 100 has taken visits to Indiana, Illinois and Michigan so far.

[Charlie Marlow @CharlieMarlow_]

"Q"

@JoshSchertzSLU called Quentin Jones the Billikens best player this fall

@QuentinJones3x talks about the upcoming @SaintLouisMBB season

[Southsuburbanhoops @ssuburbanhoops]

Immortalize Me - Jeremy Saffold, Parkside Athletics

Yall help us congratulate the newest immortal from Parkside, by way of Homewood Flossmoor

Tremendous fan of this man on and off court..

Continued Blessings Brother and well deserved 👊🏽🖤

@JeremySaffold34 @HFHSAthletics @HFVikingHoops

[the Sports ON Tap @thesportsontap]

AJ Dybantsa was in sixth grade when he brought home a C minus.

His father called his travel team coach and told him the boy was not to play in the next game.

Then he drove him six hours to the game anyway.

Here is the whole thing.

They went from Brockton, Massachusetts to Philadelphia. AJ got dressed. He warmed up with everybody else.

Just before the tip, the coach told him he was not playing.

He sat there the entire game. Then he got back in the car and cried for six hours.

Here is what his father says about it.

"He realized then that I wasn't messing around, and he has been on the honor roll ever since."

Now here is who his father is.

His name is Anicet Dybantsa. Everybody calls him Ace. He was born in Brazzaville, in the Republic of the Congo, one of eleven children.

At 13 his family sent him to France to live with an older brother, because the schools were better.

In his early twenties he came to Boston to learn English.

He put himself through community college working as a janitor and cooking at McDonald's. He was a soccer goalkeeper good enough to get a scholarship at Massasoit Community College in Brockton and make All New England.

Then he became a campus police officer at Boston University and he did that for 19 years.

And here is the part nobody tweets.

He turned down police jobs in the city that paid better pensions. He took the campus job and kept it, because Boston University lets the children of employees go there for free.

He chose his kids' tuition over his own retirement.

AJ's mother is Chelsea. She was raised by her grandmother in Hanover, Jamaica, and she came to Boston at 13 too. She got a social work degree and she runs a department for a physician organization now.

Here is what she says about how they did it.

"It's not about being strict. It's about discipline."

And this, about her grandmother.

"My grandmother taught me that's the one thing no one can take away from you."

She was talking about school.

Here is Ace again.

"I'm his dad, not his friend. Let's make that clear."

And this, which he actually said to his son.

"AJ, there's only 450 players in the league. You have zero chance."

He also put cameras in the kitchen to find out whether AJ was really doing his morning push ups. He was not.

"I just wanted to know if you were going to lie to me."

Later Ace quit his job and moved across the country to live with AJ at his prep school.

Here is what AJ said about that on draft night.

"He quit his job just to retire and move in with me at Utah Prep so I'd be safe."

AJ is 19. He played one season at BYU and averaged 25.5 points. The Washington Wizards took him first.

He is three preseason games into a career that has not actually started yet.

But a sixth grader once cried for six hours in his father's car over a report card.

[Saint Louis Men's Basketball @SaintLouisMBB]

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[The Field of 68 @TheFieldOf68]

Pat Kelsey on the witness stand is electric:

"Tell me the rules and I'll follow them! Nobody follows them. You're trying to trick me with a bunch of stuff. END THE CHAOS! END. THE. CHAOS."

[The Field of 68 @TheFieldOf68]

NEWS: The Ohio Supreme Court has STAYED the ruling that the players in the Ohio 5-in-5 lawsuit are ineligible, which means they ARE now once again (currently) eligible, per @PaulFritschner

[Swopes Athletic Recruiting @swopesathletic1]

Congratulations to Corte Wallace of South Side High School. He is having an amazing season and recently scoring his 10th goal of the year! @CoachQScouting @SS_Archers @TheRdot_Wallace @CorteWallace_33 @FWCommSchools