Eddie Sutton, legendary college basketball coach, dies at 84

Eddie Sutton, legendary college basketball coach, dies at 84

Lead trainer Eddie Sutton of the Oklahoma State Cowboys celebrates subsequent to vanquishing the St. Joseph's Hawks during their fourth round provincial round of the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament at Continental Airlines Arena on March 27, 2004, in East Rutherford, New Jersey. 

Eddie Sutton, the main school ball mentor to lead four distinct schools to the NCAA competition, kicked the bucket on Saturday, his family said in an announcement. He was 84. 

Sutton's family said he died at home in Tulsa, Oklahoma, because of regular causes, encompassed by his children and their families. His significant other of 54 years, Patsy, kicked the bucket in 2013. 

Sutton - a four-time National Coach of the Year - was one of nine honorees to be chosen for the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame in April. He will be drafted after death, alongside legend Kobe Bryant, on August 29. 

Lead trainer Eddie Sutton of the Kentucky Wildcats looks on against the Indiana Hoosiers during a NCAA College b-ball game around 1985 at Rupp Arena in Lexington, Kentucky. 

His family said Sutton felt it "was a respect and a tribute to the extraordinary players he instructed and remarkable right hand mentors that worked for him." 

Enlisted into the College Basketball Hall of Fame in 2011, Sutton guided his groups to a consolidated 26 NCAA Tournament appearances. 

In 37 seasons, Sutton won 806 games and showed up in three Final Fours. He won 17 gathering customary season and competition titles and had just one losing season. 

Throughout the years he trained at a few distinct schools, including 11 years at the University of Arkansas and 16 years at his place of graduation, Oklahoma State, where he drove the school to two Final Fours out of 1995 and 2004. In 2005, Oklahoma State made its eighth-back to back NCAA Tournament appearance, the longest streak in the school's history. 

"Oklahoma State University is profoundly disheartened by the death of Coach Eddie Sutton," said Oklahoma State President Burns Hargis. "A Hall of Fame Coach with in excess of 800 successes, he restored our notable b-ball program and will consistently be venerated and cherished by the Cowboy family." 

"Father and Mom treated their players like family and consistently shared the conviction that his lessons went past the ball court," Sutton's family composed. "He loved the time he spent at each school and valued the help from their unwavering fans. He accepted they merited such a great amount of credit in the accomplishment of his projects."