For the seventh year, Bryant “Big Country” Reeves has the same prediction, and he is waiting for it to come true.
Reeves, a former star center on the Oklahoma State men’s basketball team, said it should have happened the first time. Over and over, he has had the hunch that his college coach will be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
Eddie Sutton is 83, about a month away from turning 84, and the voting committee hasn’t given him Hall of Fame status. Sutton is a finalist for the seventh time, but the selections won’t be revealed until April 4, during the Final Four weekend in Atlanta.