The clock in the North Ward Elementary School gymnasium in Tuscola, Illinois, has reached the three-minute mark. A girls’ basketball game just finished, and the boys’ game is moments away from tipping off in the gym connected to a cafeteria.
Colton Rahn is on the team wearing yellow pinnies, his blue Illinois Fighting Illini shirt with the italicized Illinois logo bleeding through from underneath. Rahn, who turned nine in late January, set up on the left point and ran to the free throw line. He turned back to the perimeter and set a screen before rolling to the basket, executing the pick-and-roll.