From Croatia to Connecticut, Muhl sisters will face each other on the court for the first time

By PAT EATON-ROBB (AP Sports Writer)

STORRS, Conn. (AP) — UConn point guard Nika Muhl says she and Ball State guard Hana Muhl used to fight about almost everything while growing up together in Croatia.

But the sisters from Zagreb, now living on the other side of the Atlantic and more than 800 miles apart, have become so close as adults that they have each other’s first initial tattooed behind their left ears.

Nika, 22 and the older of the pair by just over two years, has another...