{"id":200207,"date":"2026-03-21T07:50:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T07:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/200207\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T07:50:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T07:50:23","slug":"watch-79-olivier-rioux-score-for-florida-set-record-as-tallest-player-in-ncaa-tournament-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/200207\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch 7&#8217;9&#8243; Olivier Rioux Score for Florida, Set Record as Tallest Player in NCAA Tournament History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Florida Gators center Olivier Rioux made NCAA Tournament history when he subbed in late in Friday night&#8217;s 114-55 blowout of Prairie View A&amp;M.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">That substitution officially made Rioux, who is listed at 7-foot-9, the tallest player in March Madness history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Shortly after checking in to the game, Rioux grabbed an offensive rebound and reached up for a tip-in dunk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Rioux then recorded an assist on Florida&#8217;s final basket of the blowout win, a three-pointer from CJ Ingram with 43 seconds left on the clock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">This isn&#8217;t the first time Rioux has made history this season. He became the <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MarchMadnessMBB\/status\/2001472830970753316?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">tallest<\/a> men&#8217;s college basketball player to record a field goal during a win over Saint Francis on Dec. 17.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Rioux, who saw limited playing time in 10 games for the Gators this season, could potentially see more March Madness action if Florida can secure any more postseason blowouts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The next opponent for the top-seeded Gators will be No. 9 Iowa, which advanced to the second round with a Friday win over Clemson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida Gators center Olivier Rioux made NCAA Tournament history when he subbed in late in Friday night&#8217;s 114-55&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-200207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}