It used to be in college basketball that coaches had to figure out how to integrate a few freshmen and maybe a transfer student into a team’s existing framework.

Those days are long gone.

St. Louis University coach Josh Schertz has five players returning from last season, six transfer players and four freshmen, so there are more players who have never played with anybody on this team than players who have. And even though Schertz and his staff recruited all of them to come to SLU, how the pieces will all fit together is a mystery until the players actually hit the court.

“You’re always concerned, how’s it going to fit together,” Schertz said Thursday after the third day of summer workouts at Chaifetz Pavilion, with most but not all of his second SLU team on hand. “It’s a big difference

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