Eddie Sutton Is Back To Coach San Francisco

Just two wins shy of 800 career victories, Eddie Sutton is back coaching college basketball. He will take over at San Francisco after coach Jesse Evans stepped down:

"Coach Jessie Evans has requested a leave of absence for the remainder of the basketball season," USF athletic director Debra Gore-Mann said in a statement. "I have approved his request. Eddie Sutton has agreed to serve as interim head coach, effective immediately and for the remainder of the 2007-08 season. I [or someone from the USF athletic administrative staff] will be traveling with the team as much as possible for the immediate future to lend my support to the student-athletes and to assist interim coach Sutton in any way I can."

Sutton comes back to coaching trailing just Bobby Knight in wins among active coaches. As for his little drinking problem that saw him get into a drunk driving accident in his final season at Oklahoma State?

"I'm physically in good health," Sutton said, adding that his drinking problem is a thing of the past. "I feel very strong."

"As a recovering alcoholic you have to work on that every day," he added. "I still attend meetings."

USF is currently 4-8, good for seventh place in the eight-team West Coast Conference.