What media members who cast votes for the 2021 Lexington Herald-Leader Kentucky Sports Figure of the Year award said about those who finished 11 through 25:
2021 claim to fame: The Kentucky Wildcats women’s basketball star was chosen SEC Player of the Year and AP First-Team All-America for the second straight season.
What voters said: “Rhyne Howard will eventually go down as one of the two greatest Kentucky women’s basketball hoopers of all time. … Players like Howard are generational-type talents and Kentucky is lucky that she can call Lexington home.” — Zack Geoghegan, Kentucky Sports Radio
“(The) greatest UK women’s basketball player I’ve ever seen (apologies to Valerie Still, but I didn’t see her play).