Eddie Sutton was born on March 12, 1936 in Bucklin, Kansas. Sutton played for Oklahoma A&M until his senior year of 1957-58 under coach Henry Iba.
His coaching career began in 1967 in Twin Falls, Idaho at the College of Southern Idaho, a community college. He left them in 1969 to coach at the Creighton Blue Jays.
He coached 36 years of Division 1 College Basketball total, coaching at Arkansas, Creighton, Kentucky, Oklahoma State, and The University of San Francisco. He led two different schools to the Final Four, and was the first coach to take four different schools to the NCAA Tournament.
He coached at UK from 1985-1989 and led the Cats to the Elite Eight of the 1986 NCAA Tournament. He didn’t last long at UK, on the 1988-89 season, he lacked talent in his starting lineup and UK finished with a losing record of 13-19, the team’s first full season losing record since 1927. After the 1988-89 season ended, the NCAA announced that its investigation into the basketball program had found the UK guilty of violating numerous NCAA rules. He finished at UK with a 88-39 overall record at UK.
Sutton then returned to Oklahoma State in 1990, and rebuilt the program, as well as his reputation for coaching getting the school to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in awhile.
He finished with an overall record of 888-341.
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