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
barely increased number quality teams time win year
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.
best chance great guys help huge lesson lose mountain player practice rest step time win
When you lose your best player without any practice time or anything (to prepare), that's a huge mountain to overcome. I think this is a great lesson for the other guys, that they can win without Gerry. That'll help make them stronger, give us a chance to rest Gerry. Other guys know they can step up and make plays.
boards dominated either second time
We were not in either game. The first time we battled them on the boards remarkably. The second time they dominated us.
finals seemed time took year
It seemed for a long time there that we made the finals every year and took it for granted. It has been a while.
biggest conference defending defense fortunate games people played playing problem stop time won year
Our biggest problem has been defending people. Offensively we played pretty well but it's pretty disappointing at this time of the year that we can't stop people on defense. We're fortunate we've won as many games in our conference as we have playing the defense we have all year.
ahead basketball compete far played pressed rochester schools time zones
He was so far ahead of his time as far as basketball was concerned, ... We pressed and played different zones and did things that weren't commonplace back then. And, as a result, we were able to compete with the big schools in the Rochester area.
half himself last needed offense played terrible time today
He couldn't play those last two games. I had to take him out. He played like himself in the first half and we needed that. Our offense has been terrible and we need him to get it going and we did today for the first time in a while.
bing coach dave fame foundation good guys hall players program realize syracuse team time
He got guys like Dave Bing to come to Syracuse at a time when the program was really down, ... He made me realize that the foundation for any good team is good players. There isn't a coach in the Hall of Fame who didn't have good players on his teams.
amazes anybody gerry guts playing time
Gerry wouldn't let it get away. He was playing on about half-a-leg today. He amazes me every time I see him play. He's got more guts than anybody I've ever coached.
best came gerry huge lose mountain player practice time
Gerry went out, we were down five. He never came back. When you lose your best player without any practice time or anything, that's a huge mountain to overcome.
amazes anybody guts released soon time
He amazes me every time I see him play. He has more guts than anybody I've ever coached. As soon as he released it, there was never a doubt. There was nothing but net.
amazes time
He amazes me every time I see him play.
bad ball game hurt played shot stop
We just really couldn't stop them defensively enough to get to where we wanted to go. They shot the ball well. They played well, ... We made some uncharacteristically bad turnovers in this game that really hurt us.
consider played teams ten three top
We just played three teams I consider to be Top Ten teams and, right now, we're not a Top Ten team.