Kansas State Basketball: Pape N’Diaye – Transfer Profile

Bio

Position: Forward / Center

Height: 7’0”

Weight: 230

Hometown: Abidjan, Ivory Coast

Recruiting Class: 2024

Eligibility: Junior – 2 Years Remaining

Former Team: UNLV, Xavier

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High School Rankings: 3* (88.9) – National: 153 – Center – 20

Transfer Portal Rankings: 3* (90) – National: 394 – Power Forward: 89

High School Career

Arrived in the US from Ivory Coast in 2022

Attended Trinity International High School in Las Vegas

Invited to the Pangos All-American Camps

Ranked as the 97th best prospect and the 15th best center in the 2024 class by 24 Sports

High School / AAU / International Highlights2024-25 Season – UNLV

Games Played: 32

Games Started: 1

Minutes: 13.1

Points: 2.7

Rebounds: 3.7

Blocks: 1.1

2-Point %: 64

3-Point %: 43

Miscellaneous 2024-25 Stats

Highest Scoring Game: 11 vs Fresno State

Games with 10+ Points: 1

Games with 2+ Blocks: 9

Most Blocks in a Game: 3 vs Northwestern

Block Rate (per KenPom): 10.2 (led UNLV)

Total Blocks: 34

2025-26 Season – Xavier

Games Played: 29

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Games Started: 0

Minutes: 9.4

Points: 2

Rebounds: 1.5

Blocks: 1.0

2-Point %: 50

3-Point %: 43

Miscellaneous 2024-25 Stats

Highest Scoring Game: 10 vs Creighton, Seton Hall

Games with 10+ Points: 2

Games with 2+ Blocks: 8

Most Blocks in a Game: 4 vs Missouri State

Block Rate (per KenPom): 10.7 (led Xavier)

Total Blocks: 28

College Highlights / Interviews2026-27 Season Outlook

N’Diaye should provide defense and rebounding, as well as some spot-up shooting and rim finishing off the bench. He’s more skilled than you think.

Thoughts

Players like N’Diaye should start at a school like Belmont, learn the game, and then transfer up. Watching some of his films from UNLV and Xavier, you can see the physical skills, but he still looks hesitant on the court. Above everything else, he needed time on the court in order to figure out how to translate those skills into on-court success.

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Instead, he started at UNLV and then moved on to Xavier. Physically, he was fine at…

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