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
Most of the people in the Hall are on a different level from me,
who knew we'd get another chance so soon?
I think Pittsburgh is a top 10 team. I always have all year. That's a great challenge for us.
I think if you can beat the No. 1 team in the country, you should be in.
I think I may be more excited about coaching than I've ever been, ... I think I realize that I'm closer to the end than I am to the beginning. I know I don't have 29 years left. So, I guess I'm appreciating it more.
We can't beat them anywhere else. They've killed us four straight games, except for the two here.
Those guys have to be ready to step up and play. This is the opportunity for them. We'll see how they handle that.
I think John's place in Syracuse basketball history is underappreciated, ... We were facing some tough times and he easily could have turned his back on us and committed someplace else, but he stuck with us. During that 1996 tournament, he literally carried us on his shoulders to the title game.
I think the thing fans admire and I admire is the way Gerry plays hard all the time. He knows no other speed than full speed. When he makes a mistake, it's an effort-mistake. Most guys make mistakes because they don't give enough effort. That's never been the case with Gerry.
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.
We never made it through nine holes, ... If you were smart, you would have bet the under every time.
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.
We haven't increased the number of teams in a long time and the quality has increased so much, I would have thought it would have been expanded a long time ago. This year more than ever there were teams that barely got in or didn't get in that can win games.
We could have lost all four games, all four.