Eddie Sutton
Eddie Sutton
Edward Eugene Suttonis a retired American college basketball coach. He was a head coach for 36 years at the Division I level, at Creighton, Arkansas, Kentucky, Oklahoma State, and the University of San Francisco. Sutton became the first coach to take four schools to the NCAA tournament, and he reached the Final Four with Arkansas in 1978 and Oklahoma State in 1995 and 2004. He is one of only eight major college men's basketball coaches to have over 800 career...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth12 March 1936
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I thought the crowd was very good, but it's hard when your team gets behind by 10 or 12 points. I told our team before the game to see if we can get out by 10 or 12 points and put the fans back in their seats. We were able to do that.
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Any time you can rally, that's something you can build on and you reach back. If you've got a game like that and you're down, and say, 'Hey, remember what we did at Kansas State.
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I've talked to members of the selection committee, and to at least be considered for the NCAA Tournament, you have to win some road games. They also put quite a bit of emphasis on what a team does in the last 10 games of the season.
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We've completed what we consider a very challenging and demanding schedule, ... With the games we have set up during the non-conference portion of our schedule, we feel it gives our players an opportunity to gain valuable experience before facing the rugged Big 12 Conference.
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We've won a lot of championships, but I'm not sure that any one of them is any more special than this one. This team has come so far. They continue to amaze me.
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I think he's improved in all areas of his game. He's always been a good scorer. He has quick hands and he has good defensive instincts. He's the big reason Colorado is doing so well.
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I was convinced high school was the place for me.
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I think we just got outplayed. I think Oklahoma just played better than we did. They certainly displayed the fact that they were a little tougher than we were.
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I think that certainly is a factor in some of the scores. It takes more time to get a shot against a zone than it does man-to-man. Teams that are playing zone probably aren't fouling as much, so you aren't getting as many points at the free throw line.
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We played horrible guarding the three-point line. It seems to me they out-toughed us on some rebounds... The thing that disappointed me the most is I didn't think we competed as well as some of the other teams we've brought here.
added normally played report scouting starting team
They will have played only one game, so we will not have the scouting report we normally have. They've got their whole starting team and they've added some guys. That will be a very competitive edge.
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They've only played one game, so we don't have scouting reports. I think they're going to be a very competitive team when you play them in Waco.
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Not only in our league, but I think they have to be one of best backcourts in college basketball.
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It's disappointing because it's a great conference. Schools have a big-enough attendance that students should fill it up when the adults don't.