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 Big East, I think, we belong here. Even though we've added some teams from outside, we're still fundamentally the Big East. And I think we're better off than we would be in a southern conference.
It's an overwhelming feeling to be here. It's a tremendous honor to be here and walk through this building.
It's a tremendous honor but it's like anything you get in life. It really doesn't change the future. You still have to go out and recruit and try to do the best coaching job you can. There is no better honor but it's not going to help us beat anybody.
They could be in third place with a little luck. That's how close the league is. The difference is so minute between teams. Look at West Virginia, (they've had) one after the other of close, tough games, and as good as Connecticut is, against Pitt, it's a one-point game late at home. It makes for great games, I guess.
They did a good job on him. They made him work for everything. He couldn't get any penetration.
Syracuse, New York, is like Hawaii for eight months of the year, ... The other four months, I don't care about the weather because we're playing basketball.
It's certainly a tremendous challenge. I don't know if it'll be any tougher than when we had three Final Four teams and two teams get to the Sweet Sixteen. It can't be much tougher than that, but it'll be difficult.
It's a matter of accepting what he can do. He needed to be patient. That's a tough thing to do as a player, but this was a game that was made for him.
It seemed for a long time there that we made the finals every year and took it for granted. It has been a while.
It will be a great tournament to watch. It's always been good, but never this good ... There will be some unbelievable games in the next few weeks.
It's a great win. I'd say it's one of the best we've ever had at Syracuse and I've only been here about 44 years.
We had better balance in New York. That was the key to winning.
We had better balance and that was the key to winning. The other guys just scored more and played better. If we can continue with that kind of balance we'll play well here.
We're happy. To be able to play these games early in the year is tremendous for our team. We're just beginning to try to shape our team. We won't be able to do things at the same level now as we will at the end of the year.