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 got to play probably the two best teams in the conference besides Connecticut back-to-back in the road for television. That's just crazy.
Today was the best we've run our offense all season.
We didn't do a very good job on the offensive glass.
We could have lost all four games, all four.
We just didn't do a good job on the boards in the first half. We did a better job in the second half.
When they caught us, and they caught us three or four times, we kept going. Usually, when that happens, you let it go away a little bit. But these guys (Syracuse player) wouldn't let it go away.
When Gerry got the ball coming down, I set something up. I told him (to) drive and give it to one of three guys at the end of regulation. He looked at me and said, 'Can I shoot it?' I said, 'They're not going to let you shoot it. But if they do, shoot it. As soon as he released it, there was never a doubt that ball was nothing but net.
When Gerry gets going like that, it's disheartening. He can pull up and make it from anywhere inside the half court.
We gave them too many easy baskets off turnovers in the first half.
We gave them four wide open shots at the beginning of the game. You can't do that against a quality team like Villanova.
We relied on Hakim (Warrick) and Gerry a little bit too much last year.
We feel that we can play with them, we feel we can play with anybody. They're as good as anybody.
We're not a high turnover team. We take care of the ball well in games. I think we're a little bit unsure offensively and everyone's trying too hard to make something happen. But we have to get better movement. In the second half, we got a little better movement and a little better spacing and we got some real good possessions.
We struggled at times, but most of it was because of our schedule. It was more the product of our schedule than how we were playing. We really didn't play at the level we could until New York.