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
These (conference) tournaments are so underdog-oriented. Teams that have to win, they're playing their hearts out. . . . You're going to beat teams that maybe are better. The real truth is, the teams that are better maybe aren't that much better.
Our defense was the best it's been all year in the first half and most of the second half. At the end the game just got crazy, I don't know what you'd call that.
I think there should be an expansion. Whatever seems to fit.
He has a done a great job. They're getting great leadership from their seniors Copeland and Whitney. They've really turned things around. They have great direction and great cohesiveness.
I'm glad we won a couple of games because I would have said this anyway. But people would have thought I was just upset because we lost three games, which we could have. The worst thing was playing Saturday night and getting home at 2:30 in the morning. At least play an afternoon game in Cincinnati or something. The way that we're scheduling is just not going to work.
I think they're a very good defensive team. If you watched the game, you know why he wasn't in the game. Gerry could not make plays.
He's won more games with last-second shots, free throws and play-making than any player we've ever had. It's not even close.
He's got a big heart. If he's on your side, you'll never have to worry about having a friend.
New Orleans means a lot to me. To win on the same court we lost on was a tremendous experience. ... To see what's happened to New Orleans is even more difficult for me because of what the city meant to our team.
You can't let him get open. When he got open he made two (three-pointers). I thought we did a good job of finding him and not letting him get set.
He goes out and plays on it, it could get worse.
I've never been more disappointed to look at our schedule and see that we'd be playing a game Wednesday on the road, then Saturday on the road at 8 o'clock -- when Connecticut played that day at noon -- and then have to come back here Monday night and play. Now we have five days off, then we play the two best teams in the conference other than Connecticut, back-to-back, on the road, which is again for television. That's just crazy to have to do that.
This is a team that can beat anybody any night and any place.
You start thinking about it a little bit more. I'm going out recruiting Sunday so that takes a little bit of the edge off.