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Top-ranked KU basketball recruit Josh Jackson officially signs

Three weeks after Kansas landed a verbal commitment from the top college basketball prospect in the country, both sides made it official.

Josh Jackson, a 6-foot-7, 202-pound shooting guard and the nation's top recruit on Rivals.com and several other outlets, signed with KU and will be a freshman next season, coach Bill Self announced Tuesday.

Self said Jackson's competitive nature makes him as highly thought of as any recent player to come out of the high school ranks and compared him favorably to another top recruit to choose KU.

"He is very similar to Andrew Wiggins," Self said in a news release.