Baye Fall

Baye Modou Fall (born December 21, 2003) is a Senegalese college basketball player for the Fresno State Bulldogs of the Pac-12 Conference. He previously played for the Arkansas Razorbacks, Kansas State Wildcats, and Rutgers Scarlet Knights.

Early life Fall grew up in the Senegalese capital of Dakar, mainly playing association football as a goalkeeper. He was always tall for his age, with his father standing at and his mother at . enrolling at Lincoln Academy Charter School to finish the eighth grade. The main reason for the move was an opportunity for a better education, with Fall hoping to be an architect. Unlike Sow, he already knew some English, though they both used social media and rap music to learn casual English and slang. 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. He earned second-team class 3A all-state and second-team MaxPreps Freshman All-American honors.

As a sophomore, Fall averaged 22.1 points, 10 rebounds, and 3.2 blocks per game, guiding Lutheran to a 16–1 record and a class 3A state title. He recorded 10 points, 11 rebounds, and six blocks in the championship game against St. Mary's. At the end of they year he was named class 3A state player of the year, MaxPreps Colorado Player of the Year, That summer he shared co-MVP honors with JJ Taylor at the 2021 Pangos All-American Camp Top30 game in Las Vegas.

Ahead of his junior season, Fall announced he was transferring to the newly-formed Denver Prep Academy, a member of the Grind Session national prep basketball league. He averaged 14.3 points, 7.1 rebounds and 1.6 blocks per game at the time of his dismissal. He was named co-MVP of the Pangos All-American Camp Top 30 All-Star Game in June, followed by a performance as the top scorer and rebounder at the NBAPA Top 100 Camp in July.

For his senior year, Fall enrolled at Accelerated Prep, another Denver-based private school competing in the Grind Session league as a new member. On January 24, 2023, Fall was selected as a McDonald's All-American.

Recruiting Fall was a consensus four-star recruit and one of the top players in the 2023 class, according to major recruiting services. He received his first offer from Minnesota when he was still in the eighth grade. 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. He had received more than 30 offers at this point.

College career Fall played limited minutes in nine games during his freshman season at Arkansas. Following the departure of coach Eric Musselman, he entered the transfer portal, ultimately joining Kansas State. Fall averaged 2.5 points and 1.5 rebounds in four games for the Wildcats as a sophomore in 2024–25 and entered the transfer portal on April 14, 2025. He ultimately transferred to Rutgers.

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