Keith Brown took a trip down memory lane on Saturday.

Brown, in his fourth season as an assistant coach at Georgetown, founded the successful Maryland Mystics AAU program and among the most memorable runs his teams enjoyed was a run to a second-place finish at the 2000 11-and-under AAU nationals in New Haven.

"That was a good time, that was a long time ago," Brown said.

Among the players on that team were Paulisha Kellum, who went to Virginia, former South Florida star Porcha Grant, Latoya Bennett and Jori Nwachukwu who both played at North Carolina Central, Wofford'ss Natalie Gramblin, former Maryland forward Demaria Liles (now at Shaw University).

"It was fun," Brown said. "It wasn't a business, the kids were 11 and we just came off being third in the nation the year before and they were kids trying to get to the Final Four."

MOSQUEDA-LEWIS FINISHES CAREER IN STYLE
UConn signee Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis had 33 points including a key 3-pointer with 48 seconds remaining as Mater Dei High of Santa Ana, Calif. defeated Berkeley 59-47 in the CIF Division I championship game on Saturday.

Mosqueda-Lewis finished the season averaging 22 points and had 113 3-pointers for the Monarchs, who should finish atop the final national high school polls.

The news wasn't as good for UConn commit Breanna Stewart as her Cicero-North Syracuse team lost to Murry Bergtraum 59-47 in the New York Federation AA semifinals.

Stewart, a 6-3 junior forward, had 16 points.


For those interested, here is my advance for today's game as well as a notebook leading off with the strong Big East representation at the Philadelphia regional.

I will be tweeting live during the game @NHRJimFuller