One of the only things in sports tougher than replacing a coaching legend is following in the footsteps of a star, and there are 12 college basketball teams that need to figure out how to replace last season's Player of the Year candidates.

In choosing last year's biggest stars, we went straight to the granddaddy of the national POY trophies: the Wooden Award. On March 5, the Los Angeles Athletic Club announced the ballot of 15 finalists for the 2016 Wooden Award, 12 of which are now finished playing college basketball.

With one exception—we subbed in LSU (Ben Simmons) for Oakland (Kay Felder)...

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