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The AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! “When you see ‘Feast Week’ of college basketball on TV, when you see the Battle 4 Atlantis on TV, you know college basketball is back,” said Miller-Tooley, the founder and organizer of the Battle 4 Atlantis men’s and women’s tournaments. But when you see these …

PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas — Texas guard Sonya Morris had long noticed the number of big matchups in early season tournaments to stir men’s college basketball and the buzz that came with them. “I think a lot of are saying, ‘Oh wow, there’s actually value in women’s basketball, we should get involved, too,” said Lea Miller-Tooley, the founder and director of …

PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas — Kimani Lawrence and his Arizona State teammates were eager to take everything in as they arrived for a men’s college basketball tournament that was among the countless things disrupted amid the COVID-19 pandemic in the past 18 months. This week's Battle 4 Atlantis men's college basketball tournament in the Bahamas headlines the list of offshore events …

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PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas — There will be a wealth of women’s basketball talent in the Bahamas over the next 10 days with seven of the top nine teams in The Associated Press poll playing in a pair of new tournaments on the island. 2 UConn could meet for the first Battle 4 Atlantis women’s basketball tournament championship Monday if both …