There wasn’t some unexpectedly robust growth spurt, as was the case with Derrick White after he left Parker’s Legend High School for Division II UCCS. And while Elijah Malone may have played at a small high school, college recruiters don’t tend to overlook northern Indiana. Malone has no good explanation as to why his best collegiate hoops option was Grace College, an NAIA program roughly an hour from his home in LaGrange, Ind.