DFJ photo by Troy Banning Former Webster City boys’ basketball coach Bob Josten (right) accepts his IHSAA Hall of Fame plaque with wife Kathy by his side Friday night in Des Moines. Josten was one of 3 coaches to be inducted.

DES MOINES — With a smile on his face and clutching his plaque, Bob Josten looked around Wells Fargo Arena and listened to more than 13,000 spectators applaud his long and successful career. Only then did it finally begin to sink in. The longtime head boys’ basketball coach at Webster City received the highest honor bestowed on those that enter his profession on Saturday when he was inducted into the Iowa High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame at halftime of the Class 4A state championship game. Josten shared the stage with two men he calls friends — former coaches Bob Horner of Mason City High School and Steve McGraw of Waterloo East High School. “Words can’t really describe it. It lived up to all the expectations and more, and it was pretty overwhelming,” Josten, who was accompanied on the floor for the ceremony by his wife, Kathy, said of the enshrinemen.