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How six major men's NCAA basketball teams rebuilt their rosters

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"I met with the team. There is no team."

New Arkansas head coach John Calipari perfectly summed up the state of the men's college basketball offseason -- what was, essentially, an offseason for high-major rebuilds. This spring and summer, 14 power-conference programs changed head coaches, and with them came the need for complete roster reconstruction. Just a few years ago, returning only three or four scholarship players would have seemed like a disaster scenario for a program. Now, three or four returnees for a new head coach are enough to form a decent core around which to build.