IU basketball's Romeo Langford named to award watch list for nation's best shooting guard

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The hype surrounding Romeo Langford's freshman season at Indiana University continued to build Tuesday as the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame named him to an award watch list for the nation's best shooting guard.

Langford is one of two Big Ten players on the 20-man watch list for the 2019 Jerry West Shooting Guard of the Year Award. Nebraska's James Palmer Jr. is the other. Purdue's Carsen Edwards won the award last season.

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Langford joins Archie Miller's Hoosier squad after a high school career that saw him named Indiana Mr. Basketball and a McDonald's All-American, score more than 3,000 points and be regarded as one of the top high school recruits in the country.

The watch list will be narrowed to 10 by mid-February, and the winner announced April 12, 2019, at the ESPN College Basketball Awards Show in Los Angeles.