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Message: [QUOTE="freescooter, post: 4967147, member: 1023"] In many ways we were similar to Florida despite losing 3 important pieces. The key was Clingan. He wasn’t a starter, but got regular burn off the bench, which helped him a great deal, so it wasn’t like we had to replace Sanogo with a newcomer. In fact, he would likely have started for 350 of the 360 D1 teams. Getting him a year in the off the bench role really helped him this year. And we still had several key pieces, in Karaban and Diara and most importantly Newton. The biggest piece we had to replace was Jackson. He was important but less difficult to replace than Newton will be. And while he might not be anywhere near the athlete, Spencer had a basketball iq far above Jackson’s. And adding Castle more than made up for that loss. [/QUOTE]