Eddie Sutton
| Sport(s) | Basketball |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born |
March 12, 1936 Bucklin, Kansas |
| Playing career | |
| 1955–1958 | Oklahoma State |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1958–1959 | Oklahoma State (asst.) |
| 1959–1966 | Tulsa Central HS |
| 1966–1969 | College of Southern Idaho |
| 1969–1974 | Creighton |
| 1974–1985 | Arkansas |
| 1985–1989 | Kentucky |
| 1990–2006 | Oklahoma State |
| 2007–2008 | San Francisco (interim) |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 806–326 (.712) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
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Regional Championships – Final Four (1978, 1995, 2004) SWC regular season championship (1977–1979, 1981, 1982) SWC Tournament championship (1977, 1979, 1982) SEC regular season championship (1986) SEC Tournament championship (1986) Big Eight regular season championship (1992, 1995) Big Eight Tournament championship (1995) Big 12 regular season championship (2004) Big 12 Tournament championship (2004, 2005) |
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| Awards | |
| 2x AP College Coach of the Year (1978, 1986) NABC Coach of the Year (1986) Henry Iba Award (1977) 4x SWC Coach of the Year (1975, 1977, 1979, 1981) SEC Coach of the Year (1986) Big Eight Coach of the Year (1993) 2x Big 12 Coach of the Year (1998, 2004) |
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College Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 2011 |
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Edward Eugene Sutton (born March 12, 1936) is a retired American college basketball coach. He was a head coach for 36 years at the Division I level, at Creighton, Arkansas, Kentucky, Oklahoma State (his alma mater), and the University of San Francisco. Sutton became the first coach to take four schools to the NCAA tournament, and he reached the Final Four with Arkansas in 1978 and Oklahoma State in 1995 and 2004. He is one of only eight major college men's basketball coaches to have over 800 career wins.
Eddie Sutton was born in Bucklin, Kansas. He played for Oklahoma State (known as Oklahoma A&M until his senior year of 1957–1958) under legendary coach Henry Iba. While at Oklahoma A&M Sutton became a member of Sigma Chi fraternity.
In his college coaching career, Sutton was the head coach of Creighton, Arkansas, Kentucky, Oklahoma State, and University of San Francisco. He has the rare distinction of having taken two schools (Arkansas and Oklahoma State) to the Final Four, and was the first coach to lead four schools to the NCAA tournament.
Sutton's college coaching career began in 1967 in Twin Falls, Idaho, where he founded the men's basketball program at the College of Southern Idaho, a community college in only its third year of existence. The 1967–68 Golden Eagles posted a 33–4 record and quickly became a consistent national contender at the community college level. Sutton left CSI in 1969 to coach at Creighton. It was with the Bluejays that he made his first coaching appearance in the NCAA tournament in 1974.
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