In basketball it’s helpful to be tall! In cheerleading it’s helpful to be small! That’s how this picture exists:
Kentucky’s women’s basketball players are taller than their cheerleaders
So much so that we wondered if this was an optical illusion or a trick of the camera or photoshop. Nope, just tall people and short people.
UK Hoops vs UK cheerleaders #BBN #UKHOOPS pic.twitter.com/1B0mX0lQde
— Alyssa Rice (@lyss_45) September 1, 2014 That picture was tweeted by Kentucky freshman hoopster Alyssa Rice, who stands 6'3, along with 6'6 player Ivana Jakubcova. Quite frankly, we feel weird about going through the individual profile pages on Kentucky's cheerleading website -- did you know they've won 15 titles since 1995? -- but suffice it to say, none of the girls on Kentucky's squads are taller than 5'3, and several are under 5'0. So, no, this isn't an optical illusion. Basketball players are just approximately 1.4 times as large as cheerleaders.
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