Massive 7-foot-6 center Olivier Rioux commits to Florida

Florida’s 2024 basketball recruiting class got bigger on Wednesday — both literally and figuratively.

The Gators have added a commitment from 7-foot-6 Canadian center Olivier Rioux, according to On3’s Joe Tipton. Rioux currently holds the Guinness World Record as the planet’s tallest teenager, and he ranks as the No. 147 overall prospect in the 2024 On3 150 rankings.

He also had interest from Florida Atlantic, Costal Carolina, and Nebraska.

“The sky is the limit ultimately,” his head coach at IMG Academy, Jeremy Schiller, told On3’s Jamie Shaw last year. “The thing with Olivier is that he loves basketball. He isn’t one of those tall kids you have to force to play; if there is an open gym, he is in there. It is hard to tell where he will end up because he is already skilled and talented. But he just turned 16 two weeks ago, and he is at the best place in the world to develop him, and he has the passion for wanting to get better.”