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
Every game's tough, and you have to play well every game. We've got to start playing better or we're going to struggle.
It's an overwhelming feeling to be here. It's a tremendous honor to be here and walk through this building.
It's a tremendous honor but it's like anything you get in life. It really doesn't change the future. You still have to go out and recruit and try to do the best coaching job you can. There is no better honor but it's not going to help us beat anybody.
This is a great lesson for all these guys. They can win without Gerry. It will help make them stronger. It gives us a chance to rest Gerry.
This is a great lesson for all the guys. They can win without Gerry.
I had to laugh when our student newspaper called him overrated. Without Gerry McNamara, we wouldn't have won 10 games this year. The other guys just aren't ready. They needed him. We wouldn't even have a chance to play this game without him.
I'd like to show it to some of these guys (at the head table), ... It's as close as they'll ever get to one.
If the other guys had played better all year, I'm sure (McNamara being called overrated) never would have come up.
He made some bad choices and got in some bad situations but we need him to make plays. We don't have other guys to make plays.
Gerry has a pretty badly bruised thigh, but I think the rest will be good and he'll be able to come back next week.
McNamara struggled tonight, it doesn't happen very often. He couldn't get anything going and we're not used to him having a bad game.
Gerry's got a pretty badly bruised thigh, but I think this rest will be good and he'll be able to come back next week.
For Josh Wright, who hadn't played, to make all four, and we needed all four, that's a lot of guts. I'm not sure Gerry would have, as tired as he was.
He was so far ahead of his time as far as basketball was concerned, ... We pressed and played different zones and did things that weren't commonplace back then. And, as a result, we were able to compete with the big schools in the Rochester area.