“Every day I think about him,” said Roberts about his father who he lost to suicide while in High School. “I remember my uncle Mike calling out of the blue. He needed to talk to me, but I could sense there was something different about his voice.

“He told me my father was shot; I couldn’t believe it at first. I broke down. I didn’t know what to do. I found out later my father took his own life. He didn’t leave a note. I’ve had friends shot and killed. You expect the worst, but not like this. Not like this.”

Quincy, however, stayed focused, finished the season, and made it to St. John’s to play ball despite the challenges he faced growing up and losing his father. His high school coach, Kirk Smallwood, said it best, “That’s just Quincy. He’s an amazing kid.”

Today, Quincy is an amazing man. He’s matured personally and in the game. Now at Grambling State, Quincy leads the nation in scoring with an average of 23.3 points per game scoring his personal best this year, an astonishing 35 points in one game.

Quincy’s a leader on game day and a team player always. The News Star published this story on February 17th that demonstrates as much. “One day, Quincy came in late,” GSU Tigers Coach Washington said. “I looked at my watch. He looked at me and dropped his head. He said, ‘My fault, Coach.’ I said, ‘OK, let’s hit it.’ Kids come in late, they’ve got to run from the court and I tell them to go touch 215 (the sign for Section 215, atop Hobdy Arena). I said, ‘You know what you’ve got to do.’

“He called every guy over. You know what he said. He said, ‘We’re all running. I let y’all down, but guess what? We’re all gonna run.’ Nobody said I’m not doing it. They all got behind him. Everybody went up, touched it and came down and (Roberts) said, ‘Coach, we ready to practice.’”