It’s not unprecedented for a college basketball team to look completely different the year after winning a national championship. Look at North Carolina in 2010 or Kentucky in ’13, two teams that hightailed it to the NIT after losing gobs of talent to the NBA.
And then there’s Michigan. The Wolverines had a specific vision as to how their team would look in 2027, mixing returnees and newcomers—only to have the rug pulled from under them twice.
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