Now this is a big man

  Alhaji Fall from Dakar, Senegal is the tallest high school player currently playing in this country. Fall is 7 feet 5 inches tall , weighs 250 pounds with a wing span of eight feet. His shoe size

is 22.

  Tacko, as he is known to his friends, is four inches taller than Shaquille O’Neal and just two inches shorter than the tallest pro basketball player in the world, 7-7 Paul Sturgess, an Englishman who played for Florida Tech and is currently pursuing a professonal careeer with the Texas Legends of the NBDL.. Fall started playing basketball just six months before coming to the United States and is currrently enrolled as a junior in Liberty Christian Prep in Tavares, Fla. His statistics are hardly eye popping– 11.1 popiints, 5 rebounds and 1.5  blocks– this season, but again, you can;t teach height. Fall wants to continue playing basketball in college, but he doesn’t, he has his acadeics to fall back on. Fall has close to a 4.0 GPA and has designs on becoming a biochemist.

.   His story is reminiscent to that of Mamadou Ndiaye, also from Senegal, who played for a private Christian school in Californian and is currently enrolled at UC-=Irvine, where his height is listed at 7-6. Ndiaye averaged 8.0 points. 6.2 rebounds and 3.1 blocks for the Anteaters, who play in the Big West Conference.