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
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.
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.
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.
For Josh Wright, who hadn't played much, to do what he did was outstanding. We needed all four of those and it took a lot of guts for him to get all four.
It's our offense. We made too many turnovers and we missed too many lay-ups. I just told the players we're not going to win any games if we miss eight lay-ups and we turn it over that many times.
Derrick gave everybody a pep talk at halftime. I should have let him come in the locker room.
Dave Bing is the player who raised this program from the ashes, ... He made all this possible.
Darryl probably played as well in that game as any center we've ever had in the minutes he played. He's got to be able to sustain that over 30 minutes, stay out of foul trouble and still maintain that kind of effort. Above all, he's got to be there for us defensively and rebounding.
Connecticut really dominated inside, as they are going to do against most people. We've got to get our offense going if we're going to have any chance to be where we would like to be at the end of the year.
Connecticut is a team that can beat anybody, anytime, anyplace. They're the best team in our league, in the country. They've been there. They know what they're doing. They've got veteran guys who know how to play, know how to win.
It was a great win. I'd say one of the best if not the best we ever had at Syracuse. But I've only been there 44 years.
It was a great, great tournament. I'm really glad for Gerry. He started his career a little bit, probably a little bit too good, and where are you going to go after that? But he's come back and had four great years for us. He's got unbelievable heart; he really does.
It's nice to be back for such a good cause. There's no question it's nice to be back to work.
Everybody wants the opportunity, no matter what you do in the regular season, to get to your league tournament, but we knew the rules.