Jim Boeheim
Jim Boeheim
James Arthur "Jim" Boeheimis the head coach of the men's basketball team at Syracuse University. Boeheim has guided the Orange to nine Big East regular season championships, five Big East Tournament championships, and 28 NCAA Tournament appearances, including three appearances in the national title game. In those games, the Orange lost to Indiana in 1987, on a last-second jump shot by Keith Smart, and to Kentucky in 1996, before defeating Kansas in 2003 with All-American Carmelo Anthony...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth17 November 1944
CityLyons, NY
We had the worst defensive effort in the 30 years I've been coaching.
We made a couple bad mistakes at the end of the game. And fortunately Gerry corrected them.
We missed Terrence, ... He's a big key for us on the boards.
We were pushing up on him, zoning him, double-teaming him, trying to do anything we could to get him to just miss a little bit. He was terrific.
When you lose three straight games, you lose a little confidence. And we've lost a lot of confidence.
The good thing about New York was that we had good balance. That's something that we didn't have last year. With Hakim and Gerry, we just didn't have the balance that we do this year.
We don't make excuses. They played well defensively and they deserved to win the game.
We were not in either game. The first time we battled them on the boards remarkably. The second time they dominated us.
We have three games in one week, which means you'll have one day of practice. Somehow, we need to get a little more proper spacing with the games.
We can't beat them anywhere else. They've killed us four straight games, except for the two here.
We have struggled a little bit but we have lost five games to teams that were ranked in the Top Ten. This is a tough league. We still have tough games ahead. Every game in this league is a must win.
We'll be alright. We need a few days off, we'll be ready to play. It's sad that you have to play such great teams back to back then you have six days off. It's not the right way to play your best basketball. I am proud of the way we've battled back though. This has been a very difficult way to start.
We just have to play better. We're in control of our fate. We just have to play better basketball down the stretch.
We just had a lack of patience in the first half. It caused us all kinds of problems.