Tyler Zeller was a senior and it was his time to go. Kendall Marshall, Harrison Barnes and John Henson chose to leave UNC early for the NBA. It looks like the North Carolina Tar Heels basketball program just did a nose dive, right?

Not so fast.

The beauty of college—and one as prestigious as UNC—is players are always coming in to fill a spot. There will likely be growing pains with the incoming freshmen, but that doesn't put the program in the dumps.

Consider that North Carolina lost two players they were counting on in 2011-12. They lost Leslie McDonald and Dexter Strickland to knee injuries. We all thought those were crushing blows on a team that wasn't very deep.

UNC still made it to the Elite Eight...

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