Olivier Rioux is the tallest player in college basketball history as a 19-year-old freshman. He makes CBS Sports sideline reporter Tracy Wolfson look like a small child.
It is a truly mind-boggling visual to see them standing next to each other.
Florida chose not to deploy Rioux during the 2024-25 college basketball season. The former three-star recruit is not quite ready to compete with more skilled bigs so head coach Todd Golden decided to hold him out as a redshirt while he continues to develop. The decision was made with the next for years in mind. Why waste his eligibility on limited minutes during garbage time?!
Listed on the roster at 7-foot-9, 305 pounds, Olivier Rioux is the tallest college basketball player of all-time and makes his teammates look miniscule. He barely fits on the bench and did not need a ladder to cut down the nets at the SEC Championship earlier this month.
The same cannot be said for Wolfson.
Tracey Wolfson was hired as the lead sideline reporter for CBS in 2014. She also serves as the floor reporter for all of the biggest games during March Madness.
By all accounts, the 50-year-old Michigan alum is one of the nicest people in the business. But she is not one of the tallest. In fact, it is the opposite. Wolfson is only 5-foot-2.
If we are to do the math, that means she is more than two and a half feet shorter than Rioux. That’s crazy. They are 31 years apart in age. One of the two is still a freshman in college!
Wolfson went extremely viral when she interviewed UCF center Tacko Fall during the NCAA Tournament in 2019. He is 7-foot-6. Rioux has three inches on Fall, which made for an even better photo. It looks like Rioux could palm Wolfson’s head like a basketball.
😂 😂 pic.twitter.com/YX95Oh4To8
— Tracy Wolfson (@tracywolfson) March 23, 2025
The photo is so jarring that it looks like an act of photoshop. I would not blink twice if you told me that someone made Wolfson smaller in the photo than she is in real life.
And yet, it is completely real.