Curtis Kelly and Edgar Sosa will play together at the Garden tomorrow for the third time as teammates when they suit up for the Jordan All-American Classic Game.

“I feel like the Garden is my home,”said Kelly,the 6-9 Rice senior.”I ‘ve had some of the best games of my life there.”

Rice won both games the duo played at the Garden,although Sosa doesn ‘t have the same fond memories of the

arena.

“I haven ‘t played my best ball at the Garden,”the Louisville-bound senior said with a laugh after the team practiced yesterday at Basketball City in Chelsea.

“Hopefully the third time will be different.”

Regardless of the outcome, tomorrow ‘s game will mark the final time the two will play together as high school teammates.

“It ‘s going to be good to have him out there,”Kelly said of Sosa.”It ‘s going to feel like just another game, even though we know it ‘s not.”

Both players figure to play at the Garden throughout their collegiate careers,since both are slated to play in the

Big East – as is Kashif Pratt, the Seton Hall-bound senior swingman who will be in the Jordan regional game tomorrow.

“The Garden is a hard place to play,”Kelly said.

“You feel like a roach out there because you ‘re so small and you know everyone is watching you.It ‘s a lot different than the Gauchos Gym [where Rice plays most of its home games in The Bronx ].”

But it ‘s the type of atmosphere both players need to get accustomed to if they are to succeed at the next level.

Kelly,who sources had said may not wind up at UConn, earlier in the week said that he does indeed believe he

will end up in Storrs in the fall and that he would meet NCAA clearinghouse academic standards.