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MINNEAPOLIS — Joshua Langford, a Michigan State guard, remembered the first time he saw more than an inch of snow. It was two years ago, during his freshman year in East Lansing. An Alabama native, he awoke one morning to find a campus absolutely covered in the stuff.
“Bro, they’re probably going to cancel class,” he told his roommate, the former Spartans star Miles Bridges.
Recalling his education in the winters of the Upper Midwest, he deadpanned this week: “They didn’t cancel class.”
These days, Langford remains one of the odd men out, a rare Michigan State player who did not grow up no more than a half-day’s drive from campus.