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YouTube Gold: Eddie Sutton And Abe Lemons

This is an interesting video, a bit of a time capsule from when Eddie Sutton was at Arkansas and Abe Lemons was at Texas and both teams were still in the long defunct Southwestern Conference.

It’s not dated but Lemons was at Texas from 1976 to 1982 and Sutton was at Arkansas from 1974 to 1985 so you get an idea.

They were pretty divergent personalities. Sutton was the classically tightly wound coach out of the Iba school of disciplined, often boring basketball.

Lemons was more in the Al McGuire school of coaches but with a folksy Oklahoma twist and his teams played in what used to be called the Southwest style featuring high scores and lots of running.