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FILE - In this Saturday, Jan. 18, 2020, file photo, Tennessee coach Rick Barnes talks with guard Santiago Vescovi during the second half of the team's NCAA college basketball game against Vanderbilt in Nashville, Tenn. Vescovi, from Uruguay, is one of several international players on the Tennessee team, which also has players from France, Serbia and Finland. With competition canceled across all NCAA divisions because of the new coronavirus, many of these international athletes face a dilemma. Their campuses are shut down, but the coronavirus situation in their homeland may be worse than it is in the United States. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)

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College athletes choosing whether to stay in US or head home
March 25, 2020 3:48 p.m.

College athletes choosing whether to stay in US or head home

STORRS, Conn. (AP) — All but one of Anna Makurat's teammates headed home after the NCAA canceled this year's postseason basketball tournament and the school suspended classes amid the COVID-19 pandemic.