According to 247 Sports’ “Crystal Ball” prediction, Wake Forest is now in the lead for Chaundee Brown, a 6-foot-5, shooting guard from Orlando who has narrowed his list of schools to KU, Wake and Florida.

Danny Manning-led Wake Forest currently is projected as the leader for Brown with a 60 percent clip. Kansas is second at 40 percent.

The 60-40 advantage certainly is not insurmountable even if it is accurate. In fact, according to Matt Scott of TheShiver.com, KU assistant coach Jerrance Howard was scheduled to check in on Brown in Orlando sometime Tuesday.

Brown’s official visit to Kansas came earlier this month, when he was the only undecided player in town. He joined KU commitment Marcus Garrett on the visit and Garrett said after the trip that he thought Brown thoroughly enjoyed his visit.

Ranked No. 39 by Rivals.com, the four-star prospect is slated to visit Wake Forest this weekend.

While some recruiting experts believe the big difference between these two schools is the amount of immediate playing time Wake Forest could offer Brown, that’s not exactly as big of an advantage for Wake as perceived.

With Kansas possibly losing four perimeter players from this year’s team — Frank Mason, Josh Jackson, Devonte’ Graham and Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk — there certainly would be plenty of minutes available in KU’s backcourt during the 2017-18 season.

With Garrett already in the fold and the Jayhawks likely to land one of the elite, five-star point guards they’re pursuing in the 2017 recruiting class, the addition of Brown, a true shooter, would give Self three new players to pair with returning guards Lagerald Vick and Malik Newman in KU’s backcourt a year from now.

Clearly, the opportunity for playing time would be there.

I’ve heard nothing but great things about the type of person Brown is and it seems to me, at least, that the biggest obstacle for Kansas here might be (a) getting Brown out of the region and (b) getting past the bond he has developed with the Wake coaching staff, which, got in on Brown before almost every other school that pursued him and surely has treated him as one of their top targets throughout this process.