New Kentucky Coach Named

Eddie Sutton, who guided Arkansas to nine consecutive NCAA appearances, was hired today to succeed Joe B. Hall as coach of the Kentucky basketball team.

Sutton, 49, joined Arkansas in 1975, after five years at Creighton, and immediately turned the Razorback program around. Hall, 56, announced his retirement from the Kentucky position March 22 after 13 years. He succeeded the legendary Adolp Rupp, who died.