One recruiting service lists Omar Wilkes as 6-foot-2, another 6-3, one more 6-4.

So which is it?

“6-foot-4,” reported the 180-pound Wilkes, a future Kansas University basketball guard from Loyola High School in Los Angeles. “That might even be with them (shoes) off.

“I’m not really into press clippings so it doesn’t bother me too much.”

Because of his height, Wilkes  who averaged 22 points, six rebounds and five assists last year for 27-4 Loyola High  sees himself as a shooting guard in college.

“I’d say I’m a shooting guard with court vision and a little bit of handle,” Wilkes said, appearing as a guest on the Rock Chalk Sports Talk radio show.

He’s not the same player as his father  6-6 Jamaal “Silk” Wilkes, who won two national championships at UCLA, plus three world championships with the Los Angeles Lakers and one with the Warriors.

“I think I kind of wanted to go somewhere and carve my own niche,” said Wilkes, who chose KU over his dad’s alma mater, plus California and Stanford. “It would have been great to play where my father played, but I want to kind of build my own reputation and not live off his, to prove myself as a player.”

He will do that at Kansas, where he will be joined by Reno, Nev., big man David Padgett, and Oklahoma guards Jeremy Case and J.R. Giddens, who also will sign national letters of intent with KU on Nov. 13.

“Coach (Roy Williams) is calling this a ‘gem’ class,” Wilkes said. “He seems to try to get these every other year  a core group of players who will stay around and help him.”

Wilkes is buddies with 6-11 Reno, Nev., native and AAU teammate Padgett.

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“I’ve met J.R. He is a great person. I’ve not met Jeremy yet. I’ve heard good things about his game, too,” Wilkes said.

There is a chance Williams could add one more prospect to his “gem class.”

KU still is in the running for Brian Butch, 6-11 from Appleton, Wis., and Josh Boone, 6-9 from Mt. Airy, Md. Arizona last Wednesday dropped out of the running for Butch when the Wildcats received a commitment from Kirk Walters, a 6-10, 210-pound center from South Christian High School in Grand Rapids, Mich. So Butch is down to four schools  KU, Wisconsin, Marquette and North Carolina.

Butch’s high school coach tells Carolinablue.com the pivot likely will announce his college choice a week from Wednesday.

Boone is down to KU, UConn, Georgetown, Virginia, St. Joseph’s and Rutgers.

KU had to overcome the typical Kansas stereotypes in landing Wilkes.

“When I came back, everybody was like, ‘Did you have fun cow-tipping on your official (visit)?'” Wilkes said with a laugh. “I said, ‘It’s not even like that at all.’

“Being from California, a lot of people say it’s all flatlands. I told everyone they have a complete misconception. The whole atmosphere, especially around the basketball program, is incredible. They really love the basketball. Coach Williams is like God out there, almost.”