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
Gerry was able to get in the lane and the big guys reacted better, I think, than they have. They got open a little bit better.
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.
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.
Gerry had as good a four games here as anybody I've ever seen. He just wanted to win.
I don't think the overall identity of the conference has changed. We've been a good conference, and we are a good conference. There's more teams, I guess that's the change. The only thing that people really think about conferences is who the best teams are. We're going to have a lot of the best teams, like we always do.
I'd say it's one of the best, if not the best that we've ever had at Syracuse. That's over 44 years at Syracuse.
I don't think we can go into everything that was said in the locker room. We just wanted to come back and be a little more physical on defense and get to their shooters a little bit better. When you're 15 down and you can get a couple quick baskets, it's a 10-point game and you still have 16 minutes to go. It's not so much to overcome really.
He's got a big heart. If he's on your side, you'll never have to worry about having a friend.
I compete just as hard now as when I was younger,
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'm going to be very nervous, ... You give hundreds, probably thousands of speeches in this business, but you only get one chance to make an acceptance speech at the Hall of Fame. That's pressure.
I'm disappointed at this stage of the year that we're not a better defensive team, and that's why we're in the position we're in.
In the old days, when the Big East and ACC had nine teams, we'd get six in. That's 66 percent. I'm not good at math, but nine out of 16 is less than 66 percent.
If you watched the game, you knew why he wasn't in the game. Gerry could not make plays tonight. If anything, I played him too much.