Gethro Muscadin was blown away by his KU basketball visit. He said it was "special" and "rare" to be able to sit down with a coach like Bill Self, and now he'll have the chance to do that a lot more often.

On Thursday, Muscadin announced he was committing to the University of Kansas.

Muscadin recently took visits to several of the schools that had shown him interest. The class-of-2020 big man took official visits to KU, K-State, Minnesota and Texas Tech, but it was his visit to Lawrence that seemed to make the biggest mark.

“They have pretty much everything that I’ve been looking for in a college,” Muscadin said to Phog.net after visiting KU. “That’s pretty incredible. That’s something that means a lot for me.”

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He continued.

“They love the players there, too,” Muscadin said. “They have a lot of tradition at the school — and the city, too. The city itself loves the program and loves the coaches, too, from Bill Self to all of them.”

Kurtis Townsend was the primary assistant coach recruiting Muscadin, according to the four-star big man and No. 123-ranked prospect in the 247Sports Composite, but Muscadin said he heard often from Self.

“I love [the coaches'] personalities and I love that they’re honest with me. I love that they really like me," Muscadin said two weeks before his commitment. "And especially Bill Self, I love that he trusts me. You know what I mean? He trusts me and he made me trust him, too. ... I really feel like I vibe with him.”

Listed at 6-10 and 215 pounds, Muscadin described himself as a strong rebounder who runs the floor hard and can read the game — deciding when it's the right time to shoot or pass or even just step in or out of the paint.

"And I block a lot of shots, too," Muscadin added.

Still, despite the fact that he believes he plays "really hard on both ends," Muscadin said it caught him off guard when he received his KU basketball offer in the first place.

"Last summer — like I ain’t even going to lie — if someone would have told me that Kansas would have offered me, I would be like, ‘Man, I don’t know,’" Muscadin said. "It’s not that I don’t think I was good. It just means a lot for me when you see Kansas. ...

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"To me, it’s like a top-five school of all-time. That’s like, I bet you 98, 99 percent of kids in the United States right now wish they had an offer, wish they had Kansas that really wanted them, really needed them on the team, that really cared about them. That’s something that you don’t find. That’s rare.”

KU currently has two players committed for 2020. Muscadin is the first high school prospect to pick the Jayhawks, while JUCO prospect Tyon Grant-Foster picked the team earlier in the week.