The departure of Harrison Barnes, John Henson, Tyler Zeller, and Kendall Marshall to this summer's NBA draft leaves Carolina entering its third distinct rebuilding season under Roy Williams.

Though the 2012 squad will not leave Chapel Hill with a national championship, it has in common with its 2005 and 2009 predecessors that nearly all of the key players will leave a team that had been building steadily toward success for three seasons. The two seasons that followed those titles offer two extremes for how a rebuilding campaign can proceed.

In 2006, the Tar Heels rode the breakout success of freshman Tyler Hansbrough to an upset of Duke at Cameron, and a No. 3 seed in the NCAA tournament. In 2010, however, preseason ...

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