There’s no missing Tacko and his shining star
Fred Jeter | 5/24/2019, 6 a.m.
Tacko Fall’s star shined in the NCAA Basketball Tournament. It shined even brighter at last week’s NBA Combine in Chicago.
The former University of Central Florida center set combine records for several measured categories.
He is No. 1 of all time in height with no shoes (7 feet, 5¼ inches), with shoes (7 feet, 7 inches), wingspan (8 feet, 2¼ inches) and standing reach (10 feet, 2½ inches).
Fall also was the heaviest of this year’s 60 combine participants at 289 pounds.
His hand size (10.5 inches from the tip of his thumb to the tip of his pinkie) was the largest of this year’s class.
A native of Senegal, Fall upped his stock in the UCF Knights’ 73-58 victory over Virginia Commonwealth University and 77-76 loss to Duke University in the NCAA Tournament. Fall had 13 points and 18 rebounds against VCU and 15 points and six rebounds against Duke.
