Romeo Langford stood behind a podium at New Albany High School on Monday night. Three hats sat in front of him bearing the logos of Indiana, Kansas and Vanderbilt. Only two hats mattered. Kansas was not a finalist.

Langford, a five-star shooting guard from Indiana, named those finalists in November and never tipped his hand. And though Kansas remained a finalist in the public's eyes, the Jayhawks were cut from the list recently because of the program's ties to the FBI's college basketball investigation.

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"Kansas, it pushed it out for me," Langford's father, Tim, said after his son picked Indiana. "Just having that name on your school. I didn't take them out of three verbally, but in my mind we just didn't want him going there and anybody asking him that type of question. So we don't want him going to school there, we don't care how good the basketball is."

Whoa.

While Kansas has not yet been accused of breaking the law or NCAA rules in association with alleged payments to recruits and Bill Self said he's unconcerned and the program is a victim, the investigation's cloud is still hovering over Lawrence. And that cloud may have cost the Jayhawks one of the top recruits in the 2018 class.