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Column: Eddie Sutton's exclusion from Hall of Fame a disgrace to basketball

Former Oklahoma State men's basketball coach Eddie Sutton remains the only 800-win coach in NCAA Division-I men's basketball history who has not been inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

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Eight coaches in the history of Division-I men's college basketball have notched 800 wins on the hardwood.

Seven of them have been inducted into The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

It's an abomination to the great sport of basketball that this column needed to be written in 2020, more than a decade after Oklahoma State dedicated its historic maple hardwood basketball court at Gallagher-Iba Arena as "Eddie Sutton Court," after Sutton, who is highly regarded in the basketball community as a coaching legend.