FAYETTEVILLE -- The seventh time was the charm for Eddie Sutton making the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
Sutton, who got 260 of his 806 victories as a college head coach at the University of Arkansas, received the call Friday at his home in Tulsa that he is being inducted into the Hall of Fame, sources confirmed to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. The news also was first reported by the Tulsa World.
This year marked the seventh time since 2002 that Sutton, 84, had been a finalist.
"Finally," tweeted Darrell Walker, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock coach who was an All-American guard for Sutton's Razorbacks as a senior in 1983.