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The North Carolina Tar Heels and Arkansas Razorbacks headline the 2023 Battle 4 Atlantis discipline.
UNC and Arkansas are the one two ranked groups among the many eight-team discipline they usually reside on reverse ends of the bracket.
A troublesome path awaits each groups simply to get to the ultimate, because the Villanova Wildcats, Michigan Wolverines and Memphis Tigers are among the many notable groups that fill out the sphere.
All eight groups slated for the occasion will play three video games throughout Wednesday. Thursday and Friday. The championship recreation takes place on Friday afternoon.
Battle 4 Atlantis Schedule
Wednesday, November 22
North Carolina vs. Northern Iowa (Midday ET, ESPN)
Villanova vs. Texas Tech (2:30 p.m. ET, ESPN2)
Michigan vs. Memphis (5 p.m. ET, ESPN2)
Arkansas vs. Stanford (7:30 p.m. ET, ESPNU)
Thursday, November 23
UNC/UNI loser vs. Villanova/TT loser (Midday ET, ESPN2)
UNC/UNI winner vs. Villanova/TT winner (2:30 p.m. ET, ESPN)
Michigan/Memphis winner vs. Arkansas/Stanford winner (5 p.m. ET, ESPN)
Michigan/Memphis loser vs. Arkansas/Stanford loser (7:30 p.m. ET, ESPNU)
Friday, November 24
Third-Place Recreation (1 p.m. ET, ESPN2)
Championship Recreation (3:30 p.m. ET, ESPN)
Comfort Recreation (6 p.m. ET, ESPNU)
Comfort Recreation (8:30 p.m. ET, ESPN+)
North Carolina comes into the Bahamas with the very best rating among the many eight-team discipline and the best path to the ultimate.
The Tar Heels face the lone mid-major within the bracket, the Northern Iowa Panthers, to kick off the occasion on Wednesday.
The Villanova Wildcats or Texas Tech Crimson Raiders will face UNC within the winners’ bracket on Thursday.
Villanova appeared sturdy in its most-recent victory over the Maryland Terrapins, however it does have an upset to the Penn Quakers on its resume.
The Wildcats are led by a slew of veterans, beginning with Justin Moore, who’ve both been inside this system for years or arrived through the switch portal this offseason.
Texas Tech will use the Battle 4 Atlantis as its first check below first-year head coach Grant McCasland. The Crimson Raiders performed three mid-major squads to construct as much as the occasion.
The Crimson Raiders will play powerful protection, an attribute that McCasland’s North Texas groups had throughout his tenure there. That may very well be make the Villanova-Texas Tech recreation a race to 55 or 60.
Each the Michigan Wolverines and Memphis Tigers handed their first assessments of the younger season in wins over the St. John’s Crimson Storm and Missouri Tigers.
The Wolverines and Tigers every common over 85 factors per recreation, so they need to produce the highest-scoring first-round matchup.
Arkansas can rating and defend with anybody and it’ll come into the occasion with some further motivation to get again on observe after it misplaced to the UNC Greensboro Spartans on Friday.
Eric Musselman’s crew opened the season with three wins through which it scored over 85 factors, and if it will get again on observe within the Bahamas, it has the potential to supply just a few thrilling video games.
Stanford’s protection, which permits 77.3 factors per recreation, may very well be its downfall towards Arkansas and in a matchup with both Michigan or Memphis on Thursday.
UNC and Arkansas have the very best ceilings among the many eight-team discipline, however six packages may make a professional case to win the occasion, which is what’s going to make it the second-best Thanksgiving week faculty basketball event behind the Maui Invitational.
