Fifteen players have also passed through the collegiate hoops scene at 7-foot-4, but none compare to Rioux at 7-foot-9. The ...

When Rioux suits up next season in Gainesville, he'll officially become the tallest college basketball player in history, surpassing recent Purdue big man Zach Edey (7-foot-4) and others.

Olivier Rioux, a Canadian freshman for the Florida Gators, stands 7 ft 9 in tall, surpassing Shaquille ... the Canadian college basketball player for the Florida Gators of the Southeastern ...

There are not too many basketball players taller than Hall of ... a man shorter than him and then turning around to find the 7-foot, 9-inch tall Florida Gators center Olivier Rioux standing ...

Purdue next faces Michigan 7-footers Danny Wolf and Vladislav Goldin, who made the Wolverines a Big Ten championship ...