Among the familiar scene of players climbing a ladder to cut down the nets after winning a national championship Monday night was something surreal. One man so tall that he did not need to step on a ...

After Florida secured the national title in a dramatic late-game comeback, 7-foot-9 phenom Olivier Rioux had his turn to cut down the net and did not need a ladder to get his tiny strand of cloth. It ...

Florida center Olivier Rioux gave Gators fans a glimpse of what he could potentially bring to the team next season. Florida outlasted Houston in a hard-fought 65-63 game to win the 2025 NCAA National ...

Even in a game of modern giants, University of Florida freshman Olivier Rioux stands tall. The Canadian center, now listed at 7-foot-9, caught college basketball fans' attention watching the Gators ...

The Florida Gators are the 2025 SEC Tournament champions. The Gators took down Tennessee in the finals of the challenging tournament, 86-77. The top team in the SEC also earned a number one seed in ...

The 7-foot-9-inch freshman from the University of Florida brushed past the ladder that other players were using to cut down his piece of the basketball net after the Gators' national championship win.

Olivier Rioux holds the Guinness World Record for world's tallest male teenager. A University of Florida basketball player whose height makes him a Guinness World Record holder needed just his height ...

ABOVE THE NET — The college basketball tradition of cutting down the championship net goes back decades, but there's usually a prop included every time. Florida's 7-foot-9 center, Olivier Rioux, ...

Olivier Rioux didn't play this season, but he was impossible to miss. The Florida redshirt freshman center is 7-foot-9. No, that's not a typo. And on Monday in San Antonio, Rioux got to put that ...