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Eddie Sutton, Hall of Fame Basketball Coach, Dies at Age 84

Hall of Fame basketball coach Eddie Sutton died, his family announced.

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette's Bob Holt first reported Saturday on Sutton's death, writing the 84-year-old had been in hospice care.

Sutton was inducted into the College Basketball Hall of Fame in 2011 and received the nod to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in April.

Sutton's career included stops at Southern Idaho, Creighton, Arkansas, Kentucky, Oklahoma State and San Francisco. His most memorable spell came with the Cowboys, for whom he had also been a player in the 1950s.

The program had fallen from the heights of the Hank Iba era.