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  • Langford, McQuaid inspired by past MSU captains

    Mateen Cleaves. Draymond Green. Tum Tum Nairn. Joshua Langford? Michigan State’s junior shooting guard remains in awe of the names he’s now linked to as one of Tom Izzo’s captains this season, along with senior Matt McQuaid. “It’s an honor, especially looking at all the captains that came through Michigan State,” Langford said after Tuesday’s practice. “I consider those guys to be great leaders. And I feel like if you can say that you were considered a leader here, that’s like saying you were kind of a he

    Source: Spartan Tailgate

  • Langford, McQuaid Selected as Captains for 2018-19 Season

    Michigan State men’s basketball junior Joshua Langford and senior Matt McQuaid were selected as captains for the 2018-19 season, announced by Head Coach Tom Izzo on Wednesday afternoon. The Spartans held their first day of practice for the 2018-19 season and Izzo spoke to the media briefly before the start of the season.

    Source: Michigan State Official Athletic Site

  • Joshua Langford ready to become ‘three-level scorer’

    Joshua Langford knows what he’s capable of. Now it’s just a matter of going out on the basketball court and proving it to himself, his coaching staff, everybody. “I’m a three-level scorer, hands down,” Langford said. “I’ve just got to show it.”

    Source: Lansing State Journal

  • Joshua Langford hopes to be a three-level scorer for MSU

    Joshua Langford says he can be a three-level scorer in college basketball, getting his points at the basket, from midrange and from the 3-point line. What’s prevented him from being that so far for Michigan State, though, has been his love for one of those levels — the midrange jump shot — to the detriment the other two.

    Source: MLive.com

  • Sophomore season proves streaky for Joshua Langford

    Compared to his first season in East Lansing, Langford’s shooting percentage fell, and fairly dramatically in some spots. He had nearly a seven-percentage-point drop from the field. On 2-point shots, his percentage fell 13 points, to 44.1 percent. His 3-point percentage dipped slightly, to 41.6.

    Source: MLive.com

  • Michigan State Basketball: Grading the sophomores

    Michigan State’s sophomore class was outstanding in 2017-18. Miles Bridges, Nick Ward, Cassius Winston and Joshua Langford were the teams top four scorers and one of the main reasons the Spartans won an outright Big Ten Title. Here are the grades for MSU’s sophomore class.

    Source: isportsweb

  • Joshua Langford learning to play in Miles Bridges’ shadow

    “Josh came in with Miles — both of them McDonald’s All-Americans,” said Izzo. “But there’s been a little bit of separation between the two. I think (Josh) had to learn how to deal with that and realize that there’s a process, and the process takes longer for different people.”

    Source: Detroit Free Press

  • Joshua Langsford blossoms at key time for MSU

    When Joshua Langford came to Michigan State last season there was little doubt the McDonald’s All-American could score. He did plenty of that while being named player of the year in Alabama five straight years.

    Source: Detroit News

  • Press Conference Following Bucknell Win

  • Spartans basketball sophomores eager for NCAA tournament redemption

    It was a scene unlike most losing locker rooms. Of course, Michigan State’s players were dejected. Kansas had ended their season minutes earlier in the second round of the NCAA tournament. A multimillion-dollar question surrounded Miles Bridges’ pending decision to turn pro. But if there exists such a thing as optimism in defeat, the Spartans had it a year ago in Tulsa, Okla.

    Source: Detroit Free Press

  • Joshua Langford Must Step Up in NCAA Tournament

    Langford has seemingly disappeared from the lineup as of late. He has really struggled, which in turn has made the Spartans less threatening on offense. Langford has failed to score double-digit points in six of the past seven games.

    Source: The Only Colors

  • Joshua Langford or Matt McQuaid? Assessing Michigan State’s shooting guard situation

    Jim Delany and his by-any-means-necessary quest to get to Madison Square Garden has created a strange week. It’s March, and yet there’s no Big Ten hoops. We’re stuck in an unsettling limbo between the Big Ten tourney and Selection Sunday.

    Source: MLive.com

  • Joshua Langford’s 2018 shooting woes

    In late 2017, Miles Bridges was recovering from an ankle injury that left him without an explosive first step and turned him into a jump shooter. Cassius Winston was picking apart opposing defenses and Nick Ward was imposing his will down low. Jaren Jackson was anchoring an absurd defense and trying to figure out how to play within the offense while Joshua Langford was looking like a real problem for opposing defenses and an X-Factor for Michigan State.

    Source: The Only Colors

  • With Jackson back on track, MSU hopes to get Langford going

    Following Michigan State’s narrow home win over Rutgers on Jan. 10, Langford was averaging 13.8 points on 48.5 percent shooting from the field and 46.9 percent from distance through 18 games. His scoring and 3-point shooting were up from his freshman season, and his shooting percentage from the field was just a touch lower. In the 10 games since, Langford has still averaged double figures (10.2 points per game), but his shooting numbers have plummeted to 36.7 percent overall and 27.3 percent from behind the

    Source: Spartan Tailgate

  • Joshua Langford’s goal at Michigan State: Be more like Gary Harris

    Michigan State sophomore guard Joshua Langford grew up idolizing Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan, using the two NBA greats as guides in his quest to become a standout two-way shooting guard. Now, midway through his second season in East Lansing, his coach has given him a new player to emulate: former Michigan State star Gary Harris.

    Source: MLive.com

  • Joshua Langford has big aspirations

    No. 2 Michigan State’s Joshua Langford holds himself to a high standard. “You see all the great (shooting) guards throughout basketball; they’ve all been two-way players,” Langford, a 6-foot-5 sophomore, said after Friday night’s 111-61 home win over Cleveland State. “Klay Thompson, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant. Those guys are great two-way players. That’s what I want to become.”

    Source: Detroit Free Press

  • Joshua Langford Knows Life is Bigger Than Basketball

    This wasn’t supposed to happen. Michigan State starting shooting guard sees the applause, the chance to play at the Breslin Center, the hard work every day at practice as something more than the life of an elite athlete in college. Long before Joshua Langford committed to Michigan State, there was a real chance the sophomore from Huntsville, Alabama never again play basketball at all.

    Source: WKAR

  • Joshua Langford and the lost art of the midrange jumper

    In one of the biggest games of his career, Michigan State sophomore guard Joshua Langford found himself repeatedly standing in his favorite spot on the floor with the ball in his hands and an open look at the basket. With 14 minutes left in the first half on November 30 against Notre Dame, Langford caught a pass on the 3-point line, pump-faked in the face of a defender, took one dribble to his left and swished a 15-foot jumper.

    Source: MLive.com

  • Langford, Winston and Jackson preview Oakland game

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    • Joshua Langford Previews Oakland

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  • Practice Update: MSU Men’s Basketball Previews Oakland