One of the more intriguing parts of the St. John's/UConn women's game tonight is that the teams feature a pair of former high school teammates.

UConn's Lorin Dixon and Sky Lindsay of St. John's were teammates at Christ the King while Bria Hartley of UConn and Eugeneia McPherson of the Red Storm played together at North Babylon.

I never got around to asking Lorin about Sky Lindsay but their partnership did not end well as Lindsay quit the Christ the King team as a senior. Lorin is a very engaging kid who giggles as much as she talks during interviews but has a much different persona the last time I asked her to look back to her time teaming with Lindsay.

The relationship between Hartley and McPherson seems to be a much friendlier one even those McPherson also had a premature ending to her days as Hartley's teammate. When McPherson was a senior and Hartley a junior, McPherson was suspended for five days for what Newsday reported was suspended for five days for an incident at school. Unfortunately for North Babylon, the suspension included a playoff game which North Babylon lost to Copiague.

Bria remembers her time going up against McPherson in practice rather well.

"It is going to be fun," Hartley said of meeting up with McPherson again. "It will be like practice in the old days when I was always going against her. She was definitely was somebody I looked up to, a really good player and just going against that type of competition every day definitely helped me. It was good that we pushed each other."

Hartley, a freshman guard, is third on the Huskies in scoring at 13.5 points per game while McPherson, a sophomore guard, is third on the Red Storm in scoring with an average of 10.9 points per game.