Scott Moore heard the rumblings. There was a kid up the road getting overlooked by the big-time programs who might be worth the hour-long drive.

Moore filed away the information but didn’t immediately jump in his car. Even by small-town Indiana standards, LaGrange is sparsely-populated farmland tucked within the heart of Amish Country. And even in a basketball-mad state where hidden recruiting gems are swishing jumpers behind every corn field, tiny Prairie Heights High School wasn’t a big draw.

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Moore, though, is as diligent as any basketball coach, and soon he found himself fighting for space inside a packed-to-the-gills gymnasium at Prairie Heights. Moore found one of the last open spots, against the wall just a few feet behind one of the backboards, when Elijah Malone

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