Mike Sutton

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For the former English footballer, see Mike Sutton (footballer)
Mike Sutton

Title Head coach
College Tennessee Tech
Sport Basketball
Born March 21, 1956 (1956-03-21) (age 52)
Place of birth Flag of the United States Farmville, North Carolina
Career highlights
Championships
OVC Regular Season Championship (2005)
Awards
OVC Coach of the Year (2005)
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1978–1979
1979–1980
1980–1981
1981–1994
1994–1995
1995–1997
1997–2002
2002–present
Lees-McRae (asst.)
Hoke County HS (asst.)
Virginia Comm. (asst.)
Meadowbrook HS
Tulsa (asst.)
Georgia (asst.)
Kentucky (asst.)
Tennessee Tech

Mike Sutton is the head men's basketball coach at Tennessee Technological University. He took over in 2002, after Jeff Lebo departed to lead the basketball program at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

Sutton has recently gained attention for his struggles with Guillain-Barré syndrome, which he was diagnosed with in April of 2005.