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
best concerned five players team teams
I'm never concerned about how many players a team has. Some of the best teams we've ever play only had five guys. In basketball, it's not about numbers, you don't need 10 guys, you only need five.
again best conference crazy days five game monday night noon played playing road saturday schedule teams wednesday
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.
bit five games league lost ranked struggled teams top tough
We have struggled a little bit but we have lost five games to teams that were ranked in the Top Ten. This is a tough league. We still have tough games ahead. Every game in this league is a must win.
everybody knew league matter regular wants
Everybody wants the opportunity, no matter what you do in the regular season, to get to your league tournament, but we knew the rules.
added belong southern teams though
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.
care eight four hawaii months playing weather
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.
bruce loved pearl
They would have loved (Davis) like they love Bruce Pearl at Tennessee.
shoot
They won't let you shoot it. But if they do, shoot it!
afternoon cincinnati couple games glad home lost night people playing saturday scheduling three upset won worst
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.
acceptance chance hall speeches thousands
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.
defensive position stage year
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.
chance games gerry guys laugh needed newspaper student won
I had to laugh when our student newspaper called him overrated. Without Gerry McNamara, we wouldn't have won 10 games this year. The other guys just aren't ready. They needed him. We wouldn't even have a chance to play this game without him.
game maybe
I'm not surprised. I think we're about where we should be. We're right where I thought we'd be, maybe a game or two, but not much different.
best great
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.