New Albany's Romeo Langford named the 2018 Indiana Mr. Basketball.

New Albany High School star Romeo Langford is the 2018 Indiana Mr. Basketball winner.

The 6-foot-5 guard is the No. 5 ranked player in the nation by 247Sports in the 2018 class, one of the highest rated prospects ever to come out of an Indiana high school.

Langford scored 3,002 career points, the fourth most by a boys basketball player in Indiana.

As a senior, he averaged 35.5 points per game for coach Jim Shannon’s squad that went 25-2 and reached the state semifinals.

During his career, New Albany went 100-10 and won the 2016 Class 4A state title.

“When I went into high school, that’s one of the achievements I wanted to achieve — to be Mr. Basketball and to be mentioned with the greats," Langford said.

Langford received 264 of 294 votes cast. Evansville Bosse's Mekhi Lairy, headed to Miami (Ohio) was second and McCutcheon's Robert Phinisee, an IU signee, was third.

Langford led New Albany in scoring all four years.

Langford also was named the Indiana Male Athlete of the Year.

“They told me back stage that I needed to stay. I asked for what and they said, 'We can’t tell you yet.' Being named Athlete of the Year, that’s pretty cool, too.”

Langford was a McDonald’s All-American, Jordan Brand All-American, Naismith All-American, selected to play in the USA Basketball Nike Hoops Summit and was one of three finalists for the Gatorade National Player of the Year.

“He’s that guy,” Shannon said. “Whatever those guys are made of that most of us aren’t, he’s one of those guys. Stuff doesn’t bother him.

“He might get 50 (points) one night. He might get 10. He might get a bad call. He might get a dunk. But you’ll never know because he’s right here all the time.

“He just doesn’t let things phase him. More power to him to be that even-keeled in life. I think his ceiling is very high.”

Langford’s college announcement is scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday in a public ceremony at the New Albany high school gymnasium. His final three are Indiana, Kansas and Vanderbilt.