(slow soft music) - Small means different things to different people.

In eastern Montana, small can be anywhere from 200 people in the town to, you know, 3,000.

- I went to a one-room schoolhouse until fourth grade, so, when we're talking backwoods, I was it.

- If you got detention, you had to clean up poop on the football field ... bison poop, because it's a national park.

- Typical ranching lifestyle, changing pipes, bucking bales, feeding cows, learning how to drive when you're six.

- Closest mall, four hours; closest Costco, four hours.

We used to go to North Dakota for Walmart and a movie.

- Sports were big.

I mean, what was there to do?

We didn't have a movie theater or a mall, or anything like that.

- I was always playing with the farmer down the street in his 60s, or the kid that drove 30 miles from the other town just to play five on five.

- I had a backboard that my dad pieced together out of some steel, that hung over our garage that didn't have a garage door.

And I had a little one-by-four for my free-throw line, that I nailed into the ground.

(slow soft music) - To be offered a scholarship at the U was just, it was just a dream come true for a small-town kid.

Just a chance.

- I didn't wanna play for anybody else.

I wanted to play for the Lady Griz and, like, Robin Selvig.

I remember, that's just, like, all I dreamt about.

(slow soft music) - My hometown is Outlook, Montana, population of 75, and I had seven brothers and sisters.

So you just were real active in everything.

I grew up from the time I was little with box up above the door, and you're playing basketball with your brothers.

- Robin came from a high school that barely had enough males in it to field a basketball team.

- There was 50 kids in our high school, 15 in my graduating class.

- Sports were very, very important in Outlook, just like they were in all the little towns.

- Our town was just hyper about basketball, and the whole town'd shut down and take off.

Everybody went to the tournaments - After the games, we met at the bar, then explained to the coach what he did wrong, and so forth.