Kansas University basketball recruiting

The Kansas men’s basketball program’s pursuit of additional talent to add to its already strong Class of 2018 recruiting haul continued over the weekend, with five-star shooting guard Romeo Langford making his official visit to KU’s campus.

Langford, 6-foot-5, 191 pounds, from New Albany, Indiana, made Kansas his fifth and final official visit, following up trips to North Carolina, Indiana, UCLA and Vanderbilt.

Following the visit, his father, Tim Langford, told Matt Scott of TheShiver.com on Sunday night that the trip went “very well,” adding, “We like the facilities and the campus. We’re going to talk as a family on what’s next.”

Ranked No. 5 in the 247 Sports composite rankings of the 2018 recruiting class, there are differing reports out there about when Langford might make a decision.

Initially expected to be a spring signee, at least one outlet believes that could change.

Eric Bossi, of Rivals.com, on Monday, wrote the following: “All along, Langford has said that he plans to wait until the spring to sign. However, it’s looking more like he could end up signing early. A few weeks ago, I would have given the slight edge to Kansas in this recruitment, but now it seems that it could be swinging back in the direction of Indiana. His visit to Bloomington a few weekends ago seems to have done wonders for the Hoosiers’ chances with Langford. We’ll have to see what type of word leaks out about his visit to Kansas and if that changes things. The other school that I’d watch out for most at this time is a tossup between Vanderbilt and North Carolina but at the moment I think he picks either the Hoosiers or Jayhawks.”

Should Langford elect to make it official early, he would have to make a decision fairly soon. The early signing period runs from Nov. 8-15, which is just over a week away.

According to Scott, Langford has the look of a player who will be waiting until the regular signing period, which begins April 11, 2018 and the talented guard’s father told Scott that the plan now was to “cut it down to three (finalists) in a couple of weeks.”

With big men Silvio De Sousa and David McCormack already on board and point guard Devon Dotson also in the fold — that trio alone has put KU’s class at the No. 2 spot in the national rankings — the Jayhawks continue to pursue perimeter players to put around them, both to fit the style KU coach Bill Self likes to play and as protection against the possibility of as many as five or six players from the 2017-18 roster leaving Kansas after the end of the upcoming season.

Five-star prospects Zion Williamson and Quentin Grimes remain at the top of KU’s wish list, with the coaching staff checking in on Grimes yet again as recently as Sunday, according to 247 Sports analyst Andrew Slater.