Coaching great Sutton dies
Eddie Sutton, the Hall of Fame basketball coach who led three teams to the Final Four and was the first coach to take four schools to the NCAA Tournament, died Saturday. He was 84.
Sutton's family said in a statement he died of natural causes at home in the Tulsa, Oklahoma, area, surrounded by his three sons and their families. Wife Patsy died in 2013.
Elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on April 3, Sutton was 806-328 in 37 seasons as a Division I head coach – not counting vacated victories or forfeited games – and made it to 25 NCAA Tournaments.
Sutton had a decorated career with controversy mixed in. Sutton led Final Four squads at Arkansas in 1978 and Oklahoma State in 1995 and 2004. He took Creighton, Arkansas, Kentucky and Oklahoma State to the NCAA Tournament. He was Associated Press Coach of the Year in 1978 at Arkansas and in 1986 at Kentucky.
He fell short as a finalist for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame six times before finally being selected.
MISCELLANEOUS
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said teams in his state can return to their facilities for training after a pause of more than two months.
“Starting today, all the New York professional sports leagues will be able to begin training camps,” the Democratic governor said during a news conference Sunday.
The New York City area was one of the hardesthit parts of the U.S. by the coronavirus pandemic.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
If the Wisconsin takes the football field in 2020, it appears Kettle Moraine High School graduate Blake Wilcox will not be part of the team.
Wilcox, a touted punter/kicker who redshirted last season after joining the program as a preferred walk-on, is not expected to return.
Wilcox was rated in the top five nationally as a punter (No. 3) and kicker (No. 5) by Kohl's Kicking Camp. He was expected to challenge for the punting job this season.