It took David Padgett 21¼2 years to pick a college.

It should take less than a day to determine if he plans to stick with the university he selected — once he meets, face-to-face, with the new head basketball coach.

“After we sit down and talk, within 24 hours we’ll know which way it’ll go,” said Pete Padgett, the father and high school coach of Kansas University basketball signee David Padgett. “It should be resolved very quickly.”

In November, four high school seniors signed national letters of intent with Kansas University. They were David Padgett, 6-foot-11, Reno, Nev.; Omar Wilkes, 6-4, Los Angeles; J.R. Giddens, a 6-5, Oklahoma City; and Jeremy Case, a 6-foot, McAlester, Okla.

At the time, Roy Williams was KU’s coach.

He bolted for his alma mater, North Carolina, last week, and former Illinois coach Bill Self was hired as Williams’ replacement Monday.

In the intervening week, the Oklahoma preps had said they planned to honor their letters, but Padgett and Wilkes both suggested their futures were far from settled.

Self reached three of the four KU signees Sunday night and the fourth, Wilkes, Monday.

“Coach Self did a great job,” Pete Padgett said. “He said he’d come out and sit down and talk with us, just what I expected from someone like him. He’d had a long day, but the way we left it, it sounds like he’ll be out here sometime this week and we’ll sit down and talk.”

Wilkes said he thought Self would visit L.A. Thursday.

“I just spoke with coach Bill Self, and he seems like a really nice person,” Wilkes told rivals.com. “I’m pretty sure I’ll be a Kansas Jayhawk, but nothing is certain just yet.”

Meanwhile, a member of Self’s Illinois recruiting class — Charlie Villanueva, a 6-9 forward from Blair Academy in New Jersey — told rivalshoops.com he still was considering his options, despite an ESPN report that said Villanueva planned to declare for the NBA draft.

Villanueva orally committed to the Illini, but did not sign a letter of intent.

The deadline for college underclassmen, junior-college players and high school seniors to declare for the draft is May 12. They would have until June 19 to remove their names from the draft and go to college.

Villanueva told rivalshoops.com, “I am not close to making a decision.”

Of KU’s incoming recruiting class, Self said: “The recruiting class is very good, borderline great. With the guys coming in, not very often does the new staff take over a situation where the previously recruited players fit his style as well. I’m really looking forward to working with these guys and those guys and developing a personal relationship with them and having that grow and grow.”