STORRS – Barely a week after he moved onto campus, UConn freshman Braylon Mullins had his welcome-to-college moment guarding NBA Rookie of the Year Stephon Castle .

Castle visited campus at the same time as Jordan Hawkins , both UConn lottery picks and national champions, and they spent about an hour playing 1-on-1 with the team. Mullins’ first of many lessons was: “There’s levels to this.”

“And (Castle) is on a different level,” he said. “I’m trying to get to that level. I felt like I got better, honestly. He made me better. Jordan was there also when we were doing all that, so those two, they made everybody better in practice that day. That’s kind of how it goes here. Every single practice you’re gonna get better, every single day. That’s the standard here.”

Mullins, a noted sha

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