An experienced roster, led by a talented senior class, can occasionally be overrated in college basketball.

Look at these happy lads from Louisville, for instance. It's easy to forget that the national champions lost only one impact senior, that being point guard Peyton Siva.

This season's Cardinals, thanks to the NBA defection of fearsome center Gorgui Dieng, are likewise a fairly young bunch with only three seniors on scholarship.

How do the Cards' trio of seniors stack up against some of the other groups of veterans dotting the college hoop landscape? Answering that question involves weighing both quantity and quality: how many seniors are on hand and how large a part of the team's success will that group be?