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Message: [QUOTE="Tenspro2002, post: 4967099, member: 889"] Yeah, this is an interesting an astute point. Florida and Duke could return their whole core and make another run at it. Not surprising they went back-to-back. But also not surprising they fell off the map once that core achieved their objectives and road off into the sunset. There was no fast-reload back then. Nowadays, there's no such thing as returning your whole core. But a fast reload is possible. We lost 5 of our top 8 guys, but replaced them with two studs and had two end-of-bench guys step up into reliable (or better) roles. In a lot of ways, this repeat was actually even more impressive than it looks on the surface, considering only one of our rotation players was directly from the portal this year. It's plausible that the portal allows us to stay in contention (probably not top 3 wire to wire, but top 10-15) despite losing 4 starters this time. [/QUOTE]