Mario Chalmers (pictured), Brandon Rush, Russell Robinson, Sherron Collins

As the result of an offseason knee injury to Rush that kept him out of the NBA Draft, this quartet remains improbably intact. They're the core of a team that was playing the nation's best basketball in the lead-up to the 2007 NCAA tournament -- and then stumbled in the Elite Eight to UCLA. Anything less than a Final Four with this group will be a colossal disappointment.

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