When you read the headline of this article, you may scratch your head a bit. After all, the Kentucky women’s basketball rotation is eight players deep, and that number will grow to nine once Maddie Scherr is healthy again. There are a lot of teams out there with just seven or even six-player rotations, so what’s the big deal with Kentucky’s rotation?
Well, it’s not the fact that Kentucky has a lack of bodies to put in their rotation. It’s the fact that there isn’t a whole lot of contribution outside of the starting lineup.