By ADAM ZAGORIA
Vanderbilt head coach Bryce Drew and several staff members, along with Kansas assistant Jerrance Howard, were in attendance Friday evening to watch Romeo Langford play in a nationally televised game on ESPNU.
Kansas head coach Bill Self was set to watch Class of 2019 star Matthew Hurt play in Minnesota. Indiana played at Michigan State and was unable to attend the game.
Langford, the newly-minted McDonald’s All-American and 6-foot-5 shooting guard from New Albany (IN) Senior High School, went off for 36 points on 10-of-21 shooting in a 65-64 overtime win against Syracuse-bound Darius Bazley and Cincinnati (OH) Princeton despite a sore left wrist. During the game, Langford became the eighth all-time leading scorer in the state of Indiana.
The No. 5 player in the 2018 ESPN 100, Langford recently cut his list to Indiana, Kansas and Vanderbilt and plans to sign in the spring.
“We want to look at each school a little bit more, see the coaching style a little bit, how they’re doing with their team and go from there,” Tim Langford said recently on The 4 Quarters Podcast.
Romeo Langford knocks down a three pointer at the end of the first quarter. New Albany leads 17-13 after one quarter. Langford has scored all but four of New Albany’s points. pic.twitter.com/m1kps0KTqS
— Drew Davis (@1997Davis) January 19, 2018
Tim Langford broke down each school on the podcast.
Indiana: “Well, first of all he’s homegrown and making history by staying at home and going to IU. And also we like the style of offense that [Coach] Archie Miller has. They brought the one they had from Dayton, he brought that to Indiana. So we like that, but we still want to see a bit more and also get to know the coaching staff a little bit more, too.”
Kansas: “Speaking of Kansas, we like Coach [Bill] Self as a coach and we also like the program. We like their staff. He already mentioned that they were going to try to get those two guys [Devon Dotson and Quentin Grimes], they finally got Grimes. He was talking about doing a three-way offense for his guards and having Romeo, Grimes and Dotson take the ball up and down the court, so we don’t see any problem with that.”
Vanderbilt: “Coach [Bryce] Drew for one played NBA ball for five or six years and his style of offense, Romeo can see himself fitting in that style of offense. But we like that program and the coaching staff also.”
As for the plan going forward, Tim said they hope to take a few visits during the season.
“We’re going to see if we can fit them into his schedule,” Tim said. “We want to try to get down there and watch Vanderbilt play a home game if we can fit it into our schedule and also go to IU and watch them. As far as Kansas, we don’t know how close they’ll get to us so we don’t know if we can make that trip.”
Photo: Drew Davis
