Eddie Sutton

Eddie Sutton
Eddie Sutton (1971)
Player information
Full name	Edward Eugene Sutton
birthday	March 12, 1936
place of birth	Bucklin , Kansas , United States
date of death	May 23, 2020
Place of death	Tulsa , Oklahoma , United States
college	Oklahoma Agricultural & Mechanical College / Oklahoma State University
Clubs as active
1955-1958	Oklahoma Aggies / Oklahoma State Cowboys
Clubs as coaches
1958-1959	Oklahoma State University (Assistant Coach)
1959-1966	Tulsa Central High School (OSSAA)
1966-1969	College of Southern Idaho ( Junior College )
1969-1974	Creighton University
1974-1985	University of Arkansas
1985-1989	University of Kentucky
1990-2006	Oklahoma State University
2007-2008	University of San Francisco

Edward Eugene "Eddie" Sutton (born March 12, 1936 in Bucklin , Kansas ; † May 23, 2020 in Tulsa , Oklahoma ) was an American basketball coach . He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2020 .

Career

Sutton played three years under the direction of Hank Iba for the Aggies , which were given the name Cowboys with the renaming of Oklahoma A&M College to Oklahoma State University in its senior year . The following year he was Iba's assistant coach and then took over the Tulsa Central High School Braves of the Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association (OSSAA) as head coach and coached the junior college team of the College of Southern Idaho Golden Eagles in Idaho Falls between 1966 and 1969 .

In the following 36 years as coach of a Division I program of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), he only had seasons with positive results with the Creighton Bluejays , the Arkansas Razorbacks , the Kentucky Wildcats and his alma mater , the Oklahoma State Cowboys .

Only with the San Francisco Dons , whom he looked after as an interim coach after his retirement, did he score a defeat. With the six victories of the Dons this season, he broke the sound barrier of 800 career victories, an achievement that only seven other Division I coaches achieved (as of 2020). The University of San Francisco's program was the first that Sutton couldn't get into the NCAA Division I Basketball Championship tournament . No other coach had ever brought four different universities into the NCAA tournament before him.

Web links

• Eddie Sutton in the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame. On: The College Basketball Experience — website; Kansas City, MO, 2006-2020. Retrieved February 18, 2020 (in English).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Former UA basketball coach Eddie Sutton dies at 84. In: arkansasonline.com. May 23, 2020, accessed May 24, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Oklahoma State Basketball Legend Eddie Sutton Dies at Age 84 in Tulsa. In: pistolsfiringblog.com. May 23, 2020, accessed May 24, 2020 .