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Eddie Sutton passes away

Former Kentucky Wildcats head coach Eddie Sutton has passed away. It was first reported by the AR Democrat-Gazette.

BREAKING: Eddie Sutton, who built the University of Arkansas basketball program into a national power and won more than 800 career games as a college coach, has died in Tulsa at age 84. Read more » https://t.co/j2sBovy3n1

— AR Democrat-Gazette (@ArkansasOnline) May 24, 2020

Coach Sutton passed away at the age of 84 in Tulsa, Oklahoma while in hospice care.

Sutton’s history at Kentucky was a wild one, but it is no doubt that he is a coaching legend, as he was recently selected into the Basketball Hall of Fame.