Two years ago, Kentucky Women’s Basketball head coach Kyra Elzy watched as high-profile recruits Maddie Scherr and Eniya Russell chose competing schools over Kentucky. This season, those same two players will be Wildcats. What changed?
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To start, Elzy’s pitch drastically changed. When Scherr and Russell graduated high school, Elzy was still the assistant coach. Kentucky WBB was a different program. They didn’t have the first pick in the WNBA Draft and 2022 WNBA Rookie of the Year, Rhyne Howard, and the program certainly didn’t have a recent SEC Championship.