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 just played three teams I consider to be Top 10 teams and, right now, we're not a Top 10 team. It's sad we have to play great teams back-to-back ... that's not the right way. Nobody else has to do that, play back-to-back Saturday and Monday games two weeks in a row with three of four on the road. That's too much to ask.
We just played three teams I consider to be Top Ten teams and, right now, we're not a Top Ten team.
When Connecticut caught us, and they caught us a lot, we kept going. Gerry wouldn't let it get away. He was playing on half a leg today. He's got more guts than anybody I've ever coached.
We're not really doing a good job of getting our offense going, getting rhythm and getting the ball to our shooters.
We're pretty good, and we're getting better. I can't say we're one of the top three or four teams in the country, but we're definitely better than we were last year. Our problem is overly physical teams give us trouble.
We just weren't active enough in it. We're capable of getting out and playing. We just didn't. We were just absolutely terrible defensively.
We keep playing all these teams, we're going to find that assistant coach that said he was 'overrated' pretty soon.
We keep playing all these teams, we're going to find that assistant coach who thinks he's overrated. Or that guy is already home.
We knew the first stretch in this league will be the hardest stretch in this league. We have another tough game, and we'll see how we are after that.
We've been to the finals a lot and we want to play well. It will be a tough game.
This year has proven that teams that just got in, or maybe didn't get in, can win games.
Today was the best we've run our offense all season.
You can't describe what it means. When you start out at five-years-old and all you want to do is play basketball, and when you can't play anymore, you want to coach the game, how do you describe it? It's almost impossible.
When Gerry gets going like that, it's disheartening. He can pull up and make it from anywhere inside the half court.