Butch Estes
Butch Estes (born June 14, 1949)
Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: Barry Buccaneers
Current conference: Sunshine State Conference (D-II)
Presbyterian record: 92-63 (.594)
Furman record: 135-122 (.525)
Guilford record: 43-58 (.426)
Barry record: 203-101 (.668)
Overall record^: 473-344 (.579)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 1 (1991)
- SoCon Regular Season Champion: 1 (1991)
- Sunshine State (Div II) Regular Season Champion: 3 (2016, 2017, 2018)
- NCAA Division II Tournament Appearances: 7 (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2022)
Awards:
- SoCon Coach of the Year: 2 (1987, 1991)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2013-present | Barry |
| 2010-2013 | Palm Beach State CC |
| 2007-2008 | Seattle (asst) |
| 2006-2007 | Miami (FL) (asst) |
| 2003-2006 | Miami-Dade CC |
| 1999-2003 | Guilford |
| 1985-1994 | Furman |
| 1980-1985 | Presbyterian |
| 1977-1980 | Rice (asst) |
| 1973-1977 | East Carolina (asst) |
| 1971-1973 | The Citadel (grad. asst) |
| 1968-1971 | North Carolina (student asst) |
Butch Estes Facts
- George Estes
- Born June 14, 1949
- Hometown: High Point, North Carolina
- Alma Mater: University of North Carolina (BS, 1971) / The Citadel (MS, 1973)
- The NC-native played on the freshman team at North Carolina, then served as a student assistant under Hall of Fame coach Dean Smith
- Estes wa part of the Tar Heels’ 1969 NCAA Final Four trip and their 1971 NIT Championship
- Moved on to The Citadel, where he spent two seasons as a graduate assistant under head coach George Hill
- Early full-time assistant jobs include stints at East Carolina (under Tom Quinn and Dave Patton) and Rice (under Mike Schuler)
- Became the head coach at Presbyterian – then a NAIA program – in 1980, going 92-63 in five seasons with the Blue Hose
- Got his lone D-I head coaching job in 1985, leading the Furman Paladins for the next nine seasons
- Went 135-122 overall, with five above-.500 seasons highlighted by a SoCon title and NIT berth in 1991
- Resigned from his post at Furman in 1994 and over the next few years worked as a television analyst for Fox Sports
- Returned to coaching in 1999 as the head coach at D-III Guilford College in Greensboro, NC; went 43-58 in four seasons
- Next up was a three-year stint as head coach at Miami-Dade CC (FL), where he was 69-22 overall
- Spent one year each as a D-I assistant coach at Miami (FL) (under Frank Haith) and Seattle (under Joe Callero)
- Was the head coach at Palm Beach State CC (FL) for three years, where he was 80-14 and won three-straight conference titles
- Has been the head coach at D-II Barry University (FL) since 2013, winning over 180 games during his tenure there
- Led the Buccaneers to seven D-II NCAA Tournaments (including two Elite Eights) and three Sunshine State Conference titles
Butch Estes Coaching Tree
- Barclay Radebaugh (Charleston Southern, Queens NC)
^ overall record includes head coaching positions at the NCAA Division I, Division II, Division III and NAIA levels only; Presbyterian was a NAIA program during Estes’ tenure there