GREEN BAY, Wis. (GreenBayPhoenix.com) - Their college careers have not always been identical, their successes and failures not always paralleled, but for Green Bay seniors Bryquis Perine and Rahmon Fletcher, they have done it and lived it all together. Part of the same recruiting class, the pair arrived on campus in the fall of 2007 from different cities and states, but while here formed a bond they feel will last a lifetime.

"As soon as we got here we just clicked and we have always been good friends and hopefully that will last forever," said Perine. "You learn something about a person all the time, and I have learned things about him and he has learned things about me. It has just grown from that."

As the two seniors got set to officially start their final seasons Saturday against Minnesota Duluth, they took a minute to reflect back on their time together in Green Bay.

For Perine, a Milwaukee native from Vincent High School, it took some time to become a regular in the lineup. As a freshman, the lefty averaged just 8.8 minutes per game, and through his first two seasons he was averaging just 2.9 points per game. Through those years, he says he learned a lot from Fletcher.

"I learned to be aggressive from him on the court even though we have two different styles of play," Perine said. "He is more of a scorer and I am more of a distributor, but I have learned to be more aggressive from him."

Meanwhile, Fletcher leaned on Perine off the court. A long way from his friends and family in Missouri, Fletcher quickly found a friend in Perine.

"I do not have a lot of family in this area because I am a long way from Missouri, and to have someone on the team like "Bree" was a plus for me," Fletcher said. "There was a bond from the beginning, and that is the type of bond that you want with someone you are going to spend your most important years with. He is like a best friend and a brother as well to me."

Both have flourished since those days as underclassmen, with Fletcher being named to the All-Horizon League first team and surpassing the 1,000-point mark as a junior and Perine cracking the starting lineup and averaging a career-high 13.4 points and 4.2 assists per game in 2009-10.

Fletcher seems to take more pride in Perine's strides on the court than his own accolades.

"It is like a proud brother watching him improve and grow even though he is older than me. I played more early so he kind of asked me some things as to what to expect when he went out there and played," said Fletcher. "To see him grow, it is something that makes me happy every time I think about it."

Now seniors and the unquestioned leaders on Brian Wardle's first team as head coach, Fletcher and Perine will look to turn that bond and friendship into more success on the court.

"We have talked about bringing the team together and just going hard," Perine said about his last season. "We will not have any more eligibility left after this season so this is it for us, and we just plan to play hard every day. it is going to be sad to say goodbye, but our time is up and we are just going to make the best of it."