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Jenni Carlson: Why Eddie Sutton's Hall of Fame inclusion is about more than his wins

Chris Beard didn’t just bring his basketball team to Oklahoma State back in February.

He brought the Eddie Sutton hype train, too.

You remember, of course, all that the Texas Tech coach did for the former OSU coach that day. First, Beard had his players wear warm-up shirts with HALL OF FAME on the front, COACH SUTTON and 806 on the back. Then after the game, Beard spent almost as much time talking about Sutton as the game his team had just lost.

But something Beard said that afternoon has largely been forgotten.

He mentioned when he was the head coach at Seminole State, he found out Sutton opened OSU practices to any junior college coach who wanted to watch.