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
He couldn't get playing tonight. It's as simple as that.
John Chaney and John Thompson made it possible for the black coach to get in the college game. Administrators need to win to keep their jobs. So when Chaney and Thompson won games, that's how black coaches got hired.
He hasn't been able to practice. He couldn't get separation or push off.
They would have loved (Davis) like they love Bruce Pearl at Tennessee.
Most of the people in the Hall are on a different level from me,
I think some kids will get to college and realize it might be good to be here for two years or three. It's a good rule. I think it will prove to be beneficial to everybody in the long run.
This was a heart-and-soul type of game. I've questioned the toughness of our players a couple times. When you lose four in a row and you do what we had to do to win, that's a tremendous tribute to the toughness of these kids.
We've learned some things about our team this week.
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've been to the finals a lot and we want to play well. It will be a tough game.
We've got to score on the perimeter. There's no secret there. ... If we don't score on the perimeter, we're not going to score. Offensively we have to get better.
What Mike has done is certainly in the same category as what John Wooden did. It's an awfully, awfully impressive thing in today's world.
We had better balance and that was the key to winning. The other guys just scored more and played better. If we can continue with that kind of balance we'll play well here.
This was one of those nights when we weren't going to be denied.