Twenty years after Coach Henry Iba retired from OSU, a player he coached back in the 1950s, Eddie Sutton, returned to Stillwater to restore OSU men’s basketball to its winning ways. After coaching at Creighton, Arkansas and Kentucky, Sutton took over at OSU in 1990 and set about rebuilding the program. He led the team to 368 wins and 13 NCAA tournament appearances. Although Sutton never won a national championship, he is a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and was the 12th winningest coach in NCAA history at the close of the 2023-24 season. The basketball court at Gallagher-Iba Arena was christened Eddie Sutton Court in his honor.
