Baye Modou Fall (born December 21, 2003) is a Senegalese college basketball player for the Kansas State Wildcats of the Big 12 Conference.
[2] When he was 15, Fall moved to the United States to join his cousin, Mamadou Sow, and their uncle in Denver,[2][3] enrolling at Lincoln Academy Charter School to finish the eighth grade.
[1][2] In March 2019, Fall made a strong first impression on scouts with a standout performance at the Pangos Junior All-American Camp, a showcase for the top middle school talent in the country.
[2][4][6] Basketball writer Frank Burlison, a member of the USBWA Hall of Fame, compared his dominance to that of Deandre Ayton's at the same event six years prior.
[2] He averaged 19 points, 10.5 rebounds and 3.8 blocks per game while shooting 67 percent from the field as a freshman, leading his school to an appearance in the class 3A state quarterfinals.
[17] For his senior year, Fall enrolled at Accelerated Prep, another Denver-based private school competing in the Grind Session league as a new member.
[20] In August 2022, Fall announced that he had trimmed his list of schools to seven: Arkansas, Auburn, Colorado, Kansas State, Rutgers, Seton Hall and Texas.