It all started for Carter in Iowa

It was a different time. The Ruan Center in Des Moines, with 35 floors, had just become Iowa’s tallest building. Jack Trice Stadium in Ames, home of the Iowa State Cyclones, had just opened. The farm girls were still playing 6-on-6 high school basketball – three forwards on one half of the court, three guards (permitted to dribble only twice) on the other, and no crossing the half-court line – and…