UNGUARDABLE: 7'9" Olivier Rioux Is The Biggest Cheat Code In College Hoops Now That He's Playing Mid-Major Basketball After Transferring From Florida

We've blogged a lot about Olivier Rioux here because this is Barstool SPORTS. You see a 7'9" teenager turned college basketball player, you blog it. That was taught in blogging school. I mean look at this dude. Notice I said unguardable, not dominant or best. Because how the fuck do you guard this guy at the mid-major level? We're not talking about him at Florida anymore where teams can just spread him out and blow by him or whatever. He was going against pros there. At UC Irvine he gets to do shit like dunk from behind the net because he can just reach around 

I know we shouldn't be shocked at anything in basketball anymore. We've lived through Muggsy Bogues and Yao Ming and Tacko Fall and everything else. But there's still something about seeing a man that's SEVEN FOOT NINE out there. I don't even know how you operate on a regular basis when you're that big. I'm not even talking about like showering or sleeping in a normal sized bed. Imagine just walking around campus. You gotta find a desk to sit in - welcome to Irvine vs Florida. You gotta go to real class in the mid-major level. 

This is the good part of the transfer portal. Rioux wasn't a high major playing. He never saw the floor at Florida. Let him go to Irvine, who gets a decent recruit, and we get to see him dominate. He looks like he's playing kids on a Nerf hoop. Those things rocked by the way. Having a Koosh and Nerf hoop in my childhood home from basically every door was perfect for a dunk here and there. Cheat code, man. I'm all in on Irvine because I forgot he transferred there until recently. Need Olivier Rioux putting up double-doubles at midnight.