LaVille grad McCollough tabbed for Hall of Fame
Courtesy of lavillelancers.com
NEW CASTLE – The board of directors of the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame has named its 63rd induction class, to be honored in ceremonies on Wednesday, March 19, 2025.
LaVille High School’s Dave McCollough is among those selected as a member of the 63rd induction class. McCollough is a 1975 graduate and earned three varsity letters in basketball, two letters in football, and one letter in baseball. While playing basketball for the Lancers, McCollough played for Steve Longfellow and Mike Conner.
As a coach, McCollough has a 630-298 record and a .679 win percentage in 40 years as he enters the 2024-25 season at Connersville, his second at the Fayette County school.
Over his career, he has posted marks of 157-95 in 11 seasons at North Judson (1983-94), 308-138 in 20 seasons at Noblesville (1994-2014), 148-32 in seven seasons at Shenandoah (2015-22), 11-13 in only 2022-23 at Frankfort and 6-20 last season at Connersville.
Those tenures include 14 conference championships, 13 sectional titles (1986, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2010, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021), two regional trophies (1997, 2019) and three Hall of Fame Classic appearances (1997 champion, 2001, 2020) with just two Indiana All-Star players – Kirk Manns in 1986 and Tom Coverdale, the 1998 Mr. Basketball.
McCollough is a four-time IBCA district Coach of the Year (1997, 2007, 2016, 2020) and has collected 21 other Coach of Year honors from conferences and media outlets. He also was a 1997 Junior All-Star assistant coach, a 1997 Wendy’s Classic assistant coach, the North head coach for the 1998 Coca-Cola All-American Game and the 2000 Indiana All-Star head coach.
He started his coaching career as a junior high coach in Richmond (1979-81) and then served as a high school assistant at North Judson from 1981-83 before being named the Blue Jays’ head coach for the 1983-84 season. McCollough earned a master’s degree from Indiana University in 1986 and served as IBCA president from 2000-03. He enters the 2024-25 season as Indiana’s 14th all-time winningest coach.
Eighteen men are in the class, including a pair of Indiana Mr. Basketball winners in Bryce Drew of Valparaiso in 1994 and Troy Lewis of Anderson in 1984.
The Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame’s 63rd Men’s Awards Banquet is planned for Wednesday, March 19, 2025. The day’s events will include a reception at the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame Museum in New Castle that afternoon with a banquet that evening at the Primo Banquet Hall in Indianapolis. Reservations will soon be available online or through mail order in early 2025. Call the Hall at 765-529-1891, or visit www.hoopshall.com
