Senior (2024-25)
Played in 10 games with nine starts before a late-December injury cut his season short … shot 50 percent from the floor and averaged 3.8 points with 4.3 rebounds per game … averaged 0.9 blocks per outing … scored a season-high 10 points against Southwestern Adventist (Dec. 19) with a season-best eight rebounds vs. Little Rock (Nov. 16) … tied his career high with four blocks at RV Arkansas (Dec. 7) … tied his career best of two assists in the first win over North Dakota (Dec. 13) … received MBB’s Strength & Conditioning Award and Rowdy Award for Best Teammate at the annual UTSA Rowdys Awards celebration … set to graduate in Summer 2025 with his BA in Multidisciplinary Studies with focus areas in Sport Management, Communication and Kinesiology.
Prior to UTSA
Njie arrived in San Antonio following two seasons at SMU, where he played in 38 games for the Mustangs … at 6-foot-11, 250 pounds, the Centerville, Ohio big man started his career at Eastern Michigan, where he started 25-of-28 games while shooting 61.9 percent for 6.6 points per game and reaching double-figures in seven contests, highlighted by twice reaching 16 points, against Northern Illinois (Feb. 22), and at Miami (March 4) … at EMU in 2021-22, he also tallied 5.8 rebounds and 1.1 blocks per outing, earning selection to the MAC All-Freshman team.
High School/Post Grad
Played for the DME Sports Academy in Daytona Beach, Florida on the Post Grad Team during the 2020-21 season … helped lead the team to a third-place finish at PhenomHoops Post Grad Nationals … graduated from Centerville High School and played for Head Coach Brook Cupps … Coming out of CHS, was evaluated as a three-star recruit by Rivals and 247Sports … three-year letterwinner and two-year captain, averaging 15.0 points, 10.0 rebounds, 4.5 blocks and 2.2 assists per game during his senior year ... broke three school records with 122 career blocks, 63.0 career field goal percentage and most blocks in a game (12) … led the Elks to two district championships and earned All-State second team, selection to the Associated Press All-Ohio honorable mention and was twice named as a first-team all-conference honoree … played AAU for the C2K Elite and All Ohio Red.
Personal
Born April 13, he is the son of Baboucarr and Siala Njie … has two brothers, Baboucarr Jr. who is his teammate at UTSA since 2024 and Kebba, who plays basketball for Notre Dame … father played basketball at IPFW (Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne) and professionally.