Josh Estelle '00, the all-time leading scorer in Wabash College basketball history, was inducted into the Montgomery County Basketball Hall of Fame Saturday. The sharpshooting guard from New Castle High School was one of 15 new members added to Hall that now totals around 180 inductees.
Estelle scored 2,065 points in 109 games for the Little Giants from 1996-2000 to set the career record. His 685 points scored as a senior is the second-highest total in Wabash history. He was third in the nation in scoring as a senior, averaging 25.4 points a game to earn the North Coast Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year Award, First Team All-NCAC honors, and a Third Team D3Hoops.com All-America selection. Estelle was also named to the GTE/CoSIDA Academic All-America team for his work in the classroom and on the basketball court.
His record-setting career included three All-America honors, the most three-point baskets made in a season by a Wabash player with 105 during his senior year, and the career free throw percentage in school history (431-of-502 for 85.9 percent). He owns the Wabash record for most three-point baskets in a game (nine in two different games against Wooster), and the most three-pointers in a season (105 as a senior). Estelle earned First Team All-Indiana Collegiate Athletic Conference honors in his first two seasons, adding a First Team All-Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Award as a junior. He was also named the ICAC Newcomer of the Year as a freshman.
Estelle joins his head coach, Mac Petty, in the Hall. Petty's son, Matt, was also inducted into the Hall Saturday along with Estelle.