Sean Sutton - Men's Basketball Coach - Texas Tech Red Raiders

Sean Sutton

Title:
Advisor to Coach Beard
Email:
Sean.Sutton@ttu.edu

Sean Sutton is in his fourth season on the Texas Tech men's basketball staff as an Advisor. In his current role, he is also responsible for player development.

Sutton possesses 24 years of collegiate coaching experience and has either coached or played with 25 NBA players over his career. He has been a part of 15 NCAA Tournaments, nine NCAA Sweet 16s, five NITs, five NCAA Elite Eights and three NCAA Final Fours as a student-athlete and coach.

Sutton has piled up 533 victories during his coaching career after helping lead the Red Raiders to the 2019 NCAA National Championship Final and 2018 NCAA Elite Eight.

He turned in a 39-29 mark as Oklahoma State's head coach during the 2006-07 and 2007-08 seasons with both teams securing NIT bids. The Cowboys racked up 11 seasons of 20 or more wins during Sutton's 15-year tenure as an assistant coach, associate head coach and head coach. He was designated the national recruiter of the year by Rivals.com in 2005 and twice had the nation's No. 1 recruiting class.

Oklahoma State reached the pinnacle of college basketball with trips to the 1995 and 2004 NCAA Final Four. The Cowboys amassed a program single-season tying 31 wins in 2003-04 and are the last program other than Kansas to win the Big 12 regular season. OSU also won consecutive Big 12 Tournament titles in 2004 and 2005 along with a Big 8 Tournament championship in 1995.

Sutton spent the last six seasons as an assistant coach at Oral Roberts. The Golden Eagles registered a pair of 20-win seasons and four postseason berths. ORU turned in a program-record 27 wins and won the Summit League regular season title in 2011-12 during Sutton's first season as an assistant coach.

Sutton's playing career was highlighted by a 52-16 record, back-to-back NCAA Sweet 16 appearances and a pair of All-Big 8 Honorable Mention selections in 1990-91 and 1991-92 at Oklahoma State. His 167 assists as a senior are ninth on OSU's single-season list and his 4.5 assists per game average sits in ninth place in program history. Sutton's 44.4 three-point percentage is a program record. He played his first two seasons at Kentucky where the Wildcats won the 1987-88 SEC regular season and tournament titles en route to a NCAA Sweet 16 appearance.

The Sutton family has combined for 1,171 victories between Hall of Fame father, Eddie, along with brother, Scott and Sean. The trio is the most successful father-son basketball combination in NCAA history. Scott serves as an assistant coach on the Oklahoma State staff.

Sutton graduated from Oklahoma State in 1992 with a degree in social studies. He and his wife, the former Trena Winters, have three sons: Hunter, Spencer and Sean Parker.

Sutton's Coaching Experience
Season, School, Position
1992-93, Ole Miss, Assistant Coach
1993-2006, Oklahoma State, Assistant Coach
2006-08, Oklahoma State, Head Coach
2011-17, Oral Roberts, Assistant Coach
2017-Current, Texas Tech, Advisor to Coach Adams