The college basketball community lost a legend with the passing of Eddie Sutton, a head coach of 37 years in the Division 1 ranks and a two-time recipient of the AP Coach of the Year award.
A native of Bucklin, Kansas, Sutton got his start in college basketball when he crossed the state line to play for Hall of Fame head coach Henry Iba at Oklahoma State, and took a seat on Iba’s staff as an assistant after graduating in 1958.
Sutton would return to Stillwater some 31 years later to become Oklahoma State’s head coach in 1990.