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Astou Ndour-Fall (née Ndour; born August 22, 1994) is a Spanish professional basketball player for the Connecticut Sun of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) and for Emlak Konut of the Turkish Women's Basketball League. Born in Senegal, she represents Spain internationally.

Early life

Astou Ndour was born in Dakar, Senegal on August 8, 1994. Both of her parents had been basketball players. She was a stand-out basketball player at her school in Dakar. Ndour-Fall moved to Las Palmas, Canary Islands where she was adopted by the ex-coach Domingo Díaz and his wife, when she was 14. She continued to play basketball for her school's team in Las Palmas.

Career

Europe

Ndour-Fall joined the youth system of Gran Canaria in 2009. She also played in the Junior Spanish Championship that year. Ndour-Fall became a naturalized Spanish citizen in 2011. She was a part of the Spanish youth team that won the silver medal at the 2011 FIBA Under-19 World Championship for Women where she nearly averaged a double-double. As a member of the Spanish Youth National Team, Ndour-Fall's teams always won a medal in each tournament she played, including the bronze medal at the Under-18 European Championship for Women.

Ndour-Fall started to play with the Spain women's national basketball team on 2014 when she was 20 years old, although she couldn't play the 2014 FIBA World Championship for Women, since Spain opted to take Sancho Lyttle, and FIBA Regulations establish that only one naturalized player per roster can participate in national teams competitions.

In 2015, she was part of the Spanish roster that won the bronze medal at the EuroBasket Women 2015 in Hungary and Romania. Ndour-Fall was acquired from the San Antonio Stars by the Chicago Sky in exchange for Clarissa Dos Santos in February 2017. In May 2017, Ndour-Fall was suspended by the Sky due to injury.

In 2018 she signed for Turkish team Çukurova Basketbol and in 2019 for Russian team Dynamo Kursk.

WNBA

Ndour-Fall played for the San Antonio Stars in the 2014 and 2016 WNBA seasons. She was traded to the Chicago Sky in 2017, and played for that team in the 2018 and 2019 seasons. In 2019, she averaged 17.5 minutes and 6.8 points per game in the regular season and 25.5 minutes and 16.5 points in the playoffs as a starter. Ending the season as a restricted free agent, she was re-signed and traded to the Dallas Wings before the 2020 season. She was waived by the Wings after the season, and signed a one-year contract to return to the Sky.

Career statistics

Legend
GP	Games played	GS	Games started	MPG	Minutes per game	RPG	Rebounds per game
APG	Assists per game	SPG	Steals per game	BPG	Blocks per game	PPG	Points per game
TO	Turnovers per game	FG%	Field-goal percentage	3P%	3-point field-goal percentage	FT%	Free-throw percentage
Bold	Career best	°	League leader

	Denotes seasons in which Ndour–Fall won a Lega Basket Femminile championship
	Denotes seasons in which Ndour–Fall won a Spanish National League championship
†	Denotes seasons in which Ndour–Fall won a WNBA championship

International

International statistics
Season	Team	GP	MPG	FG%	3PT%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	TO	PPG
2010–11	CB Islas Canarias	9	5.7	.533	—	.571	1.7	0.0	0.2	0.3	0.4	2.2
2011–12		23	24.3	.547	.345	.750	7.0	0.2	0.6	0.5	1.7	9.7
2012–13		18	32.8	.524	.316	.714	7.6	0.3	0.7	0.7	1.9	14.5
2013–14		25	17.3	.520	.382	.672	13.1	0.6	1.2	1.6	3.0	17.3
2014–15	Fenerbahçe	16	14.2	.543	.200	.739	4.7	0.7	0.5	0.5	1.1	8.6
2015–16	Perfumerías Avenida	31	22.5	.551	.289	.694	6.8	0.5	1.0	1.0	1.6	10.0
2016–17	Virtus Eirene Ragusa	25	30.8	.541	.400	.697	8.2	0.4	1.2	1.1	2.2	14.3
2017–18	Virtus Eirene Ragusa	34	29.3	.596	.347	.784	6.9	0.7	0.9	1.0	0.7	14.9
2018–19	Çukurova Basketbol	31	26.2	.600	.333	.753	6.3	0.9	0.8	1.0	2.2	15.2
2019–20	Dynamo Kursk	7	17.0	.373	.333	.846	6.0	0.1	0.7	0.6	0.6	7.9
2020–21	Hatayspor	23	28.2	.645	.333	.775	8.3	0.8	0.7	0.8	1.6	16.0
2021–22	Reyer Venezia	18	25.9	.561	.477	.706	8.1	0.8	1.7	0.9	1.8	15.1
2022–23	Beretta Famila Schio	25	23.8	.606	.219	.745	7.8	0.5	0.5	0.4	1.0	12.4
2023–24	CB Islas Canarias	13	37.6	.597	.309	.746	9.3	1.7	0.7	0.8	1.5	18.7

EuroCup and EuroLeague

EuroCup and EuroLeague statistics
Season	Team	GP	MPG	FG%	3PT%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	TO	PPG
2010–11 EuroCup	CB Islas Canarias	5	5.0	.750	—	.750	2.2	0.0	0.0	0.2	0.8	1.8
2011–12 EuroCup	CB Islas Canarias	10	34.4	.477	.333	.725	10.9	0.2	1.7	1.7	2.7	16.1
2014–15 EuroLeague	Fenerbahçe	14	18.4	.484	.444	.611	5.7	0.2	0.5	0.8	1.3	9.6
2015–16 EuroLeague	Perfumerías Avenida	14	28.7	.581	.242	.857	8.1	0.5	0.5	0.9	1.6	11.3
2016–17 EuroCup	Virtus Eirene Ragusa	10	29.6	.490	.300	.703	8.0	0.6	1.3	1.3	1.1	14.7
2017–18 EuroCup	Virtus Eirene Ragusa	8	25.2	.493	.542	.692	6.1	0.6	1.0	0.4	0.7	14.6
2018–19 EuroCup	Çukurova Basketbol	12	24.6	.577	.464	.853	5.9	1.1	0.9	1.3	1.9	15.7
2018–19 EuroLeague	Çukurova Basketbol	2	25.5	.571	.400	.714	3.0	0.0	0.5	2.5	2.0	13.5
2019–20 EuroLeague	Dynamo Kursk	4	23.3	.524	.429	1.000	3.8	1.0	0.5	0.3	1.8	8.5
2020-21 EuroCup	Hatayspor	3	28.3	.556	.167	.444	8.7	1.7	0.7	1.3	2.3	15.7
2021–22 EuroCup	Reyer Venezia	4	32.0	.448	.133	.850	7.5	1.0	1.0	1.3	1.8	12.3
2021–22 EuroLeague	Reyer Venezia	10	26.6	.532	.324	.650	5.7	1.3	1.3	1.0	1.5	13.3
2022–23 EuroLeague	Beretta Famila Schio	19	26.9	.586	.333	.750	5.9	0.9	0.6	0.9	1.5	11.5

WNBA

Regular season

Stats current through end of 2024 season

WNBA regular season statistics
Year	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	TO	PPG
2014	San Antonio	8	0	4.4	.421	.333	—	1.1	0.0	0.0	0.3	0.4	2.1
2015	—	Did not play
2016	San Antonio	30	9	14.9	.396	.344	.829	3.2	0.4	0.4	0.9	0.5	6.0
2017	—	Did not play (injury)
2018	Chicago	22	9	11.6	.474	.318	.769	2.5	0.3	0.2	0.5	0.5	4.6
2019	Chicago	21	11	17.5	.492	.424	.722	4.2	0.7	0.5	0.7	0.7	6.8
2020	Dallas	13	7	11.6	.351	.240	—	2.9	0.5	0.2	0.5	0.5	3.5
2021	Chicago	20	8	17.1	.397	.235	.941	4.8	0.4	0.4	0.8	0.9	6.6
2022	—	Did not play (personal)
2023	—	Did not play (suspended)
2024	Connecticut	22	0	4.2	.346	.200	.833	0.8	0.0	0.0	0.2	0.1	1.1
Career	7 years, 4 teams	136	44	12.4	.420	.314	.832	2.9	0.4	0.3	0.6	0.5	4.7

Playoffs

WNBA playoff statistics
Year	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	TO	PPG
2014	San Antonio	1	0	0.0	—	—	—	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2019	Chicago	2	2	25.5	.667	.500	.667	8.5	1.0	1.5	1.0	1.5	16.5
2021	Chicago	9	0	7.7	.421	.200	.667	1.6	0.0	0.2	0.7	0.1	2.3
2024	Connecticut	3	0	1.0	—	—	—	0.0	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Career	4 years, 3 teams	15	2	8.2	.550	.364	.667	2.1	0.2	0.3	0.5	0.3	3.6

National team

Ndour-Fall started playing with Spain's youth teams at 16, winning a total of four medals from 2011 to 2014. She made her debut with the senior team in 2014, when she was 20 years old. Up to 2021, she had 75 caps, with 13.1 PPP and 7.2 RPP:

2011 FIBA Under-19 World Championship (youth)
2011 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship (youth)
2013 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship (youth)
4th 2013 FIBA Under-19 World Championship (youth)
2014 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship (youth)
2015 Eurobasket
2016 Summer Olympics
2018 World Championship (All-Tournament Team)
2019 Eurobasket (All-Tournament Team, MVP)
7th 2021 Eurobasket
6th 2020 Summer Olympics

Personal life

Ndour-Fall married Pape Fall in 2021.

References

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"'TIS THE SEASON: ASTOU NDOUR AND PAPE FALL ARE MARRIED!". Beyond the W. 8 January 2021. Retrieved 28 September 2021.

External links

Career statistics and player information from WNBA.com and Basketball Reference
Astou Barro Gueye Ndour at FIBA 3x3
Astou Ndour at FIBA (archive)
Astou Ndour at FIBA Europe
Astou Ndour at Eurobasket.com
Astou Ndour at EurobasketWomen2013.com at the Wayback Machine (archived May 30, 2014)
Astou Ndour at Olympics.com
Astou Ndour at Olympedia (archive)
Astou Barro Ndour Gueye (and here) at the Comité Olímpico Español (in Spanish)

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