Arkansas names practice gym after Eddie Sutton

Eddie Sutton during his Arkansas days. (Archive photo)The University of Arkansas basketball has spent much of the last 20 detached from its two greatest coaches. That has changed.

Two months ago, the Razorback trustees voted to name the court in Walton Arena after Nolan Richardson, and last week the same trustees voted to name the men’s basketball practice gym after Eddie Sutton.

The gym will be known as the Eddie Sutton Men's Basketball Practice Gym. Sutton coached the Razorbacks from 1974-85 and took Arkansas to the 1978 Final Four.

Sutton, of course, returned to his alma mater, Oklahoma State, in 1990 and turned the Cowboys into a national power, going to two Final Fours, 1995 and 2004.

But…