Attrition, as John Beilein puts it, is normal.

While statistics show that the Michigan basketball coach is probably right, there's nothing ordinary about having to replace five bodies inside every corner of your program.

Five new faces at practice, five new voices in the locker room, five new plates at the dinner table -- and five new personalities that need to be meshed together in an incredibly short amount of time for a program with extremely lofty immediate expectations.

Is Beilein worried?

Not really. He's the opposite, actually.

"My early sense for the younger guys coming in, I've watched some of them for three years, some for three months," Beilein told reporters earlier this month. "But I sense that they're all really good teammates, and they'll enhance team chemistry the minute they walk out here.

"Because they really have a great spirit about them."

Beilein expected to lose departed senior co-captains Zack Novak and Stu Douglass, the team's backbone, but didn't think he'd have to replace three other bodies.

That's exactly what happened, though, when Evan Smotrycz, Colton Christian and Carlton Brundidge left the program shortly after the season closed.

Michigan coach John Beilein believes his five incoming freshmen will enhance team chemistry because "they really have a great spirit about them."

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