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
Our defense at the end was tremendous by all our guys. They couldn't get a shot the last couple of chances.
This was a heart-and-soul type of game. I've questioned the toughness of our players a couple times. When you lose four in a row and you do what we had to do to win, that's a tremendous tribute to the toughness of these kids.
We had to give it a lot tonight. We've played a lot of basketball. We're just going to have to get ready and be ready to play Monday night. West Virginia's playing as good as anybody. It's a tremendous test, a tremendous game for us.
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.
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.
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.
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.
He's had some tremendous spurts for us, but he's been in a lot of foul trouble, which happens with big guys. When he's in the game and not in foul trouble, he's been effective. But, he's got to stay in the game.
If it wasn't for that injury, I'd be convinced he'd be playing this way every game. That was a tremendous blow to his development this year. It just has really held him back. But this will be a big confidence booster for him.
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.
We just played three teams I consider to be Top Ten teams and, right now, we're not a Top Ten team.
We just played three teams I consider to be Top 10 teams and, right now, we're not a Top 10 team. It's sad we have to play great teams back-to-back ... that's not the right way. Nobody else has to do that, play back-to-back Saturday and Monday games two weeks in a row with three of four on the road. That's too much to ask.
We just had a lack of patience in the first half. It caused us all kinds of problems.