Thread: Kentucky Tops Luke Winn's Power Rankings

In Luke Winn's weekly power rankings for Sports Illustrated, he takes advantage of the recently released Anthony Davis posters to look at AD's physical dimensions and how they compare to seemingly more 'mortal' man.

Here is what Winn had on Davis.

The Wildcats gave away Jordan-esque posters* of Anthony Davis to fans at Tuesday's rout of Florida, and the swag (which had a run of 30,000) is now being flipped for three-figure prices on eBay. As a non-collector of Wildcat ephemera, I consider the poster's main value to be scientific.

When Leonardo da Vinci drew his Vitruvian Man, he followed guides from De architectura, which detailed relative proportions of parts of the average human body. Vitruvius wrote, among other things, that a man's wingspan was equal to his height, and that his height is equal to 10 of his hands, measured from the wrist to the tip of the middle finger. These rules have guided many an artist, but they don't apply to Davis, who is either an exceptional human or not a human at all, depending on whom you believe.

We know from DraftExpress' invaluable measurements database that Davis' wingspan (7-foot-4) is 1.073 times his height in shoes (6-10). But the poster, by capturing Davis in face-on, outstretched-arm position, provides us with the most important piece of proportional data. If there were a Davis section in De architectura, it would have read:

"For the Anthony Davis is so designed by nature that the outstretched arms are equal to the length of 18.125 unibrows."

I find it interesting that this piece was supposed to be about why Kentucky is the number one team in the land, which is due to more than the AD phenomenon (all due respect). It would appear to me that the Cats are so far ahead of the competition that there is no need to even compare or provide reasoning. This would equate to stating the obvious. Either way, the 'insight' Winn provides is entertaining.

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