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.

In basketball it's helpful to be tall! In cheerleading it's helpful to be small! That's how this picture exists:

UK Hoops vs UK cheerleaders #BBN #UKHOOPS http://ift.tt/1A3bGRG

— 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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