[1] Jock Sutherland was born and grew up in the shadows of the University of Kentucky's Alumni Gym and Memorial Coliseum.
As a youngster he sneaked into the gym to watch Kentucky basketball practices under the legendary coach Adolph Rupp.
He played high school basketball at Lafayette for coach Ralph Carlisle, and as a senior was the team's leading scorer.
After his Lafayette team won the state tournament in 1979 Sutherland retired from coaching, and for twenty years worked as a color man and analyst for University of Louisville basketball broadcasts on WHAS Radio in Louisville.
In 1958 Reader's Digest designated Sutherland "The Quickest Thinking Coach in America."