It’s not only football season, but also basketball recruiting season at Kansas University.

First-year KU hoops coach Bill Self, his assistant coaches and players this weekend will entertain two of the top high school prospects in the country — actually, the world — in 6-foot-1 A.J. Price of Amityville, N.Y., and 6-10 Alexander “Sasha” Kaun of Russia.

Kaun is due in today and Price Saturday for their official recruiting visits, which coincide with Saturday night’s KU-UNLV football game.

Kaun, who is ranked No. 21 nationally in the Sporting News rankings by rivals.com analyst Mike Sullivan, is considering KU, Duke and Michigan State. The No. 17-rated Price is looking at KU, UConn, St. John’s, Syracuse, Florida State and Kentucky.

“They both are McDonald’s All-America-type players, both immediate-impact players,” Sullivan said Thursday. “They also are good kids, the type of kids coaches want in their programs.”

Kaun, who averaged 13.0 points and 7.0 rebounds a game last year at Florida Air Academy in Melbourne, Fla., will visit MSU next weekend and Duke the last weekend of the month.

Price, who averaged 25.4 points, 7.0 rebounds and 5.0 assists and hit a school-record 63 three-pointers last year at Amityville High, will visit Syracuse next weekend, UConn Sept. 20 and St. John’s Sept. 27. His fifth visit — if he makes a fifth visit — will be to either FSU or Kentucky.

Price, who scored 45 points in a playoff game for New York Riverside Church at the recent Five Star camp in Pennsylvania, is known as an explosive scorer with deep range.

“Price is a tough kid, a silent assassin on the court,” Sullivan said of the son of Tony Price, who played for Penn’s 1979 Final Four team that lost to Michigan State in the semifinals. “He’s got good range and is pretty good at distributing the ball. Last year, his high school didn’t need him to run the point. This summer he proved he can play point guard, distribute and break down the defense as well as shoot.”

Price has said he doesn’t have a favorite and will take four or five visits before announcing his college choice.

Kaun did not play much this summer for Team Florida AAU because of a stress fracture in a foot.

No matter. Coaches around the country are convinced the 240-pound big man will be a dominant inside presence in college and perhaps the pros, too.

“Kaun has a nice touch. He gets most of his points inside,” Sullivan said of the pivot who only has been playing organized ball for two years. “I think he’s a little further ahead offensively than most big men. Most big men in high school are shot blockers, rebounders, have not developed offensive skills yet. He can score.”

His high school coach, Florida Air Academy’s Aubin Goporo, agrees.

“Sasha has only been playing for two years so he is improving everyday,” Goporo told theinsiders.com. “He works extremely hard and is very easy to teach. He’s working on improving his offense facing the basket. He’s already excellent with his back to the basket and has great post moves.

“Plus, he runs the floor better than just about any big man out there.”

Kaun arrived from Russia as a 6-10, 185-pound 15-year-old sophomore who averaged six minutes a game. He has improved dramatically after hitting the weights and playing year round.

“I think I’m playing stronger,” Kaun told Florida Today, “and better inside, but I still have a lot of work to do. I’ve been working on my footwork, and I think it’s improving. I’ve been playing against the best players so I watch them, see how they play. It makes me push myself to get better because I want to play better.”

Kaun also has no favorite. He hopes to make a decision in October. The early week-long signing period starts Nov. 12.

KU has three scholarships to give and has filled one slot with 6-9 power forward Darnell Jackson of Midwest City, Okla.