Kansas freshman guard Quentin Grimes, a member of USA Basketball's gold-medal winning under-18 men’s national team who was named MVP of the FIBA Americas U18 Championship on Saturday, arrived in Lawrence for summer school on Sunday night.
Grimes, a 6-foot-5 combo guard from The Woodlands, Texas — he scored 17 points with seven rebounds and six assists in Team USA's 113-74 title rout of host Canada — brought his gold medal and MVP hardware with him to town.
“It is a feeling I can’t describe. It is my first time getting an actual gold medal, playing in a FIBA tournament, playing with a great bunch of guys and going out there and getting the job done,” Grimes, who averaged 14.