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
Four guards can work wonderfully well a lot of the time. But sometimes you can take advantage of it. We can't take advantage of it. And when you can't take advantage, they'll take advantage of it.
Those two helped us to get off to such a great start, ... They laid the foundation for the success we've had.
This team showed more heart and guts than any team I've ever coached. And Gerry had as good a four days as anyone I've ever seen.
You have to have tough, physical guys to get away with that. That's what Villanova has. The advantage is you get a big advantage on offense but a disadvantage on defense. But I think it balances out. But you have to have tough kids to do that. They have tough kids and veterans so they can get away with it.
This year has proven that teams that just got in, or maybe didn't get in, can win games.
When you lose your best player without any practice time or anything (to prepare), that's a huge mountain to overcome. I think this is a great lesson for the other guys, that they can win without Gerry. That'll help make them stronger, give us a chance to rest Gerry. Other guys know they can step up and make plays.
When you lose three straight games, you lose a little confidence. And we've lost a lot of confidence.
We had the worst defensive effort in the 30 years I've been coaching.
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.
We've had too many bad turnovers and we've got to get that corrected.
Even though you wouldn't want to be in that play-in game, you're still in the tournament. That's a lot better feeling than not being in the tournament.
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.
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.
We all know that it's more open now than it's ever been.