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Big man coming: Why 7-foot-1 Jason Cudd joined the ‘old-school’ Gamecocks

Jason Cudd had grown so tired of the question, one that’s been ever present in his young life. Derrick Hilton, Cudd’s coach at Socastee High School, joked if Cudd had a dollar for every time someone asked how tall he was, Cudd would be a wealthy man.

So he did something about it.

“I actually got a shirt made up when I was 17,” Cudd said.

It read:

7-1

17 years old

Plays basketball

“Those are the three questions,” Cudd said.

That’s life for the 7-foot-1 center. Cudd admits issues with catching his head on doorframes around the school, taking pictures out in public and using his height as a good conversation starter.