Former Kansas University basketball guard Keith Langford has been named one of 12 players to compete for the United States at the Pan American Games, July 21-25 in Toronto.
Baylor’s Taurean Prince and Wichita State’s Ron Baker also made the team, as well as Malcolm Brogdon, Bobby Brown, Ryan Hollins, Shawn Long, Anthony Randolph, Kaleb Tarczewski, Romelo Trimble, Denzel Valentine and Damien Wilkins.
The U.S. team is coached coach Mark Few of Gonzaga, with former KU men’s basketball player and current Colorado head coach Tad Boyle and longtime NBA coach Mike Brown serving as assistants.
Langford, who plays for Unics Kazan in Russia, is KU’s No. 7 scorer of all time (1,812 points). He competed for KU in the 2002 and 2003 Final Fours. Langford has also played pro ball in Italy and Israel. He played in two games for the San Antonio Spurs in 2007-08.
Langford is the sixth Jayhawk to compete for the United States in the Pan American Games and the first since Danny Manning won a bronze medal at the 1987 Games prior to his senior season at KU.
Two Jayhawks, Melvin Kelley and Robert Kenney, were members of the 1955 gold-medal team, while upcoming Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Jo Jo White won Pan Am gold in 1967.
In 1975, KU’s Norm Cook also won gold for the U.S.
