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“He’s in” Former OSU basketball coach Eddie Sutton will be inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame after seven years on the ballot

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On Friday night, the phone rang in the Sutton household. It was a call they’ve been waiting six long years for.

“This is a very special and exciting day for our family,” Sean Sutton said.

“My dad was so honored and humbled to receive a phone call from the Naismith Hall of Fame that he was going to be inducted in the 2020 class.”

While Eddie Sutton’s 806 wins, 13 NCAA tournaments and three Final Four appearances gave him the opportunity to make it into the Hall of Fame, it was his personality off the court that had everybody fighting for him to get in.

Sutton treated many of his former players, co-workers and friends as if they were family.

And what happens when a family receives long awaited good news? They tell the rest of their relatives.

So, after receiving this call, Sean made his own calls to people whom Eddie considers family.

One of the first people to receive one was ESPN’s Dick Vitale.

“The joy in the voice of Sean Sutton when he called me -- his Dad was with him -- (Friday night) was special,” Vitale said in a tweet. “It was finally a glorious moment when they said Eddie you are a Hall of Famer. Six times

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Eddie Sutton’s greatness on and off the court brought him an induction to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

he heard ‘Sorry, remember it is an honor to be a finalist.’ Trust me I know that feeling.”

The reason Vitale received a call so soon was because of his deep connection to Sutton.

“Eddie Sutton and I go back a long way,” Vitale told the O’Colly. “I was coaching Detroit, a Jesuit school, he was coaching the Catholic school in Creighton. We used to do some clinics together, didn’t make a whole lot of money -- we’d get $50 and be happy -- for a speech at a clinic. That

changed as you get more successful. But Eddie was just a great fundamentalist, great teacher of the game.”

The way Vitale reacted to the news was as if someone in his own family was named a Hall of Famer. That’s how deep Sutton connected with people.

“I’m jumping with joy,” Vitale said. “This should’ve been years ago.

I’m so happy that he’s here to be able to get the call and to be able to enjoy that special moment and his family I know

is going to be thrilled beyond belief. It’s long overdue, my friend, long overdue.”

The “long overdue” aspect of this is something that has been stated for a long time.

For years, members of the media, former players and people at Oklahoma State University have had to plea for Sutton to get in the Hall of Fame. One major voice sounding out was OSU public address announcer Larry Reece, who was overjoyed when he received the news.

“Well (I’m) just so

happy for the Sutton family, but I’m also happy for the OSU family because we’ve all wanted this,” Reece said. “We’ve all known that he deserved it and it should have happened years ago.”

Reece also noted that despite Sutton’s past snubs, he’s glad this announcement can give OSU a nice relief from COVID-19 news.

“It’s kind of nice that it’s happening right now because we needed a distraction during this time and something to cheer about,” Reece said. “We don’t have sports, but we still have our sports legends like Eddie Sutton and he’s now in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame… I’m glad it’s finally come true.”

Reece and Sutton’s careers intertwine. Reece became the P.A. announcer for OSU in Sutton’s second season back on campus and always felt welcome, thanks to Sutton’s hospitality.

“I was a student when I started calling Cowboy basketball games in his second year at Oklahoma State, and he’s always treated me as part of the team, as part of the family,” Reece said.

The part of the family that spent the most time with Sutton, however, was the actual players.

This allows every former Sutton player to have an interconnected bond with their old coach. Former OSU guard Bryndon Manzer discovered the news thanks to a vague

text from another player.

“Yesterday I was in my office and Doug Gottlieb texted me and he just texted ‘He’s in,’” Manzer said. “My first reaction was I felt so happy for him and the Sutton family… My second reaction was gratification as somebody who played for him and all of us that’s ever played for him.”

Sutton was a Division I basketball coach for 36 years and has interacted with many players, staff members and fans over that time. That said, the number of people in his “family” is huge. Manzer tried to describe the sheer size of this.

“There’s no question, he is the patriarch of a very large family,” Manzer said. “It consists of former players and their families, assistants and their families. I saw it firsthand at Oklahoma State. The extended family of anybody who was an OSU person or involved in any way to Stillwater, Oklahoma, you were part of his group and I’ve always felt that way.

“It was always my dream to play at Oklahoma State because I grew up in Stillwater, but the timing of it where Eddie Sutton was the coach, having played for him, there’s really a sense of pride, a sense of toughness that he leaves you with. And certainly a tremendous amount of loyalty for someone that would absolutely do anything for you.”

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Kelvin Sampson was a champion for Eddie Sutton’s induction to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

In each of Sutton’s six previous nominations for the Hall of Fame, Sampson has vouched for the former Oklahoma State men’s basketball coach.

Although they coached rival teams with Sampson’s Oklahoma Sooners and Sutton’s Cowboys, they’ve always had mutual respect for one another.

After Sampson heard that Sutton would be inducted into the Hall of Fame, he received a text message from Sean Sutton, who was an assistant coach under his legendary father while Sampson was at OU. The message brought a smile to Sampson’s face as Sean thanked him for the friendship he’s had with the Sutton family for more than two decades.

“I think that text tells a little bit about the relationship we had,” Sampson said. “We were rivals and our fan bases acted like how rivals should act. But there was never a fan base or coaching staff or a coach that I had more respect for than coach Eddie Sutton and Oklahoma State.”

Sampson has been there for the Suttons through all the tragedies

Column: At long last, Eddie Sutton is a Hall of Famer

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Former Oklahoma State coach Eddie Sutton shares a moment with current Houston coach Kelvin Sampson after the Cougars defeated Oklahoma State in Gallagher-Iba Arena.

they have faced. When Sean went through his battle with addiction, Sampson called and encouraged him to persevere through his addiction.

In Sean’s text to Sampson on Friday, he said it was something he’ll never forget.

“I have told a lot of people these past nine or 10 years about the impact your call had on me,” Sean said in his text to Sampson. “You’re a great coach and even better person.”

After a plane crash killed eight members of the basketball team on

Jan. 27, 2001, Sampson said Sutton became a strength for the community.

“Eddie was a tower of strength and the compassion he showed for those families and for his program. He was somebody that we all could look up to,” Sampson said.

Sampson always believed the Basketball Hall of Fame would always have an asterisk by its name if Sutton wasn’t inducted.

But now that his coaching rival turned friend for life will be inducted into the Hall of Fame, Sampson said Sutton’s career has been validated.

“Eddie, to me, was a first-ballot hall of famer,” Sampson said. “God made us human beings.

We all have fallacies.

You know, there’s a lot of people that live in glass houses and like to throw rocks at people. But Eddie Sutton was a great man, great coach, great father, great husband and great role model in a lot of ways. He was a coaches coach.

“The Hall of Fame was put there to reward the best of the best and Eddie Sutton was shoulder to shoulder with anybody that’s ever coached this game.”

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Discussing COVID with a reporter in Italy K ay la D un n E d i to r in Ch ief @K aylaJ_D u n n

Editor’s note: This article is the first of a two-part series. The next installment will be a Q&A with questions submitted by OSU students.

Quarantined in her home on the outskirts of Rome, VOA Journalist Sabina Castelfranco shed light on how the COVID pandemic is affecting Italy and could subsequently affect the United States, especially regarding asymptomatic individuals.

“It’s totally locked down here,” Castelfranco said over Skype.

Castelfranco explained that Italy is entering its third week of government mandated quarantine. Unlike Stillwater’s lockdown, there is no discussion over “essential businesses,” “nonessential business” or what “shelter in place” means.

In Italy, the restraints of quarantine are more rigidly defined.

No one can leave the house without proper identification and completed COVID forms.

Castelfranco retrieved her government issued forms and explained what each section required: ID number, time of departure, reason for leaving, where she’s going, when she’ll return, etc. To get food for the week, Castelfranco orders groceries, and the government delivers them to her doorstep, as

they do with all residents.

“People here are listening to what the authorities are saying.

It’s not like they’re taking it lightly—people don’t leave the house,” Castelfranco said.

But for professions that cannot cease during the crisis, such as healthcare and journalism, their workers have explicit rules to follow upon leaving the house.

“You cannot leave the house without these forms,” Castelfranco said, gesturing to government issued forms that the police check for if people are out. “It’s not ‘if you’re stopped’… You are stopped. Everyone gets stopped.”

And it doesn’t seem like things will change soon.

In a press conference with the Scientific Committee of Italy’s Civil Defense Department, the head of the committee told Castelfranco: “We have to get used to many months of this. There will be social distancing for a long time, and bars and restaurants will open last.”

“If you show no symptoms, you could be passing them on to someone else without knowing. That’s a problem.”

Sabina Castelfranco

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VOA Journalist Sabina Castelfranco Skyped O’Colly Editor in Chief Kayla Dunn from Rome to discuss how Italy is handling COVID.

“I think everyone wanted to tell their citizens that it was going to be okay, but then when the numbers start growing…” Castelfranco said, pausing with a sigh.

“What needs to happen is to prepare for all the people that are going to be sick. Where are all these people going to go?

They need an ICU.” As of March 23, Projections from the U.S. and Italy had been on similar tracks, with the U.S. approximately two weeks behind Italy. Now, the U.S. has surpassed Italy in COVID cases nearly three times over.

Castelfranco went on to highlight the often unmonitored threat of asymptomatic people.

“I’ll tell you what the problem is: there are a lot of people who carry the virus who are asymptomatic. If you show no symptoms, you could be passing them on to someone else without knowing. That’s a problem,” Castelfranco said.

Castelfranco illustrated the issue with a story of a community in northern Italy. The entire town of around 3,000 people was quarantined, and every citizen was tested whether they showed symptoms or not.

The government found that of the 3,000 people, 3% tested positive for COVID. Of the 3%, 50% were asymptomatic. This suggested that half of all COVID carriers showed

no signs of illness, and therefore, spread it without knowing.

“We want to make sure that if you’re an asymptomatic person, you’re not putting other people in danger,” Castelfranco said.

The study suggests that everyone reacts to COVID differently, and understanding these differences could be key in manufacturing a vaccine.

However, a commercial vaccine is projected to be at least a year away from market.

When it comes to how the U.S. should respond to the crisis, Castelfranco laid it out simply. She believes it is vital that all people be tested because asymptotic people are

just as dangerous as those with a 100.4+ fever and shortness of breath. Individuals must do their part and stay home.

Yet in the U.S., many people maintain that they will go about life normally and if they die, it’s just their time. In response to that, she referenced an article she recently published about a 38-yearold fitness instructor who contracted the virus. The article (“Italian patient describes what it’s like to have COVID”), highlights the horrors of battling COVID even if you’re in peak health.

“I mean if you’re the one dying, it’s not so much fun,” Castelfranco says.

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