On Sunday night, the USA Basketball U18 team began its quest for an international gold medal in the FIBA Americas tournament in Canada.
The squad consists of 12 players — most of them still in high school — and its coach is Bill Self, who spent the previous week and a half running the USA Basketball training camp in Colorado Springs and will spend the next several days getting even more hands-on time with some of the top recruits in the country.
Is that a recruiting advantage for the Kansas Jayhawks’ Hall of Fame head coach?