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BYU Basketball’s scholarship crunch and offseason roster problems

Another BYU Basketball season is in the books. Now it is time for the honored post-season tradition of figuring out how next season’s roster will shape up.

Roster management is usually a disaster at BYU. There are tons of variables that seem to put a monkey wrench in things. Here are some of the greatest hits of BYU basketball off-season chaos: A change in missionary age. Players unexpectedly returning home, leaving for, or changing their timing for missions. Transfer requests. Graduate school transfers coming in and going out. Career ending aggregate health problems. Taking a gap year to get personal matters handled.