The tallest man in college basketball was walking from the University of Central Florida student union to his dormitory one recent morning, waiting for the light to change at an intersection when a driver — perhaps under the illusion that there's more than one 7-foot-6 kid enrolled there — hit the brakes and yelled a question out the window.
This is an everyday thing for Elhadji Tacko Sereigne Diop Fall, a 21-year-old from Senegal who grew up playing soccer, couldn't stand basketball when he first started playing five years ago and now has hopes of an NBA future.