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How Eddie Sutton Set the Table for a Historically Dominant Junior College Program

The “EDDIE” doc from Monday night was two hours of TV I couldn’t look away from.

There were so many awesome stories within the grand story that could’ve justified their own two-hour documentaries. One of those stories within the story revolved around the College of Southern Idaho.

Sutton was Southern Idaho’s first basketball coach, and he apparently interviewed in Twin Falls before the university even had a gym. But Sutton left Tulsa Central High School, where he was 118-52 in seven seasons, uprooted his family and traveled to the Gem State.

Sutton spent three seasons there, the first three seasons in program history, and went a combined 84-14.