Jim Boeheim

Jim Boeheim
Boeheim in 2014
Sport(s) Basketball
Current position
Title Head coach
Team Syracuse
Conference ACC
Record 926–368
Biographical details
Born (1944-11-17) November 17, 1944
Lyons, New York
Playing career
1963–1966 Syracuse
Position(s) Guard
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
College
1969–1976 Syracuse (assistant)
1976–present Syracuse
National team
1990 United States (assistant)
2006–present United States (assistant)
Head coaching record
Overall 926–368
Tournaments 48–28 (NCAA Division I)
13–8 (NIT)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
NCAA Division I Tournament (2003)
5 NCAA Regional – Final Four (1987, 1996, 2003, 2013, 2016)
8 Big East regular season (1980, 1986, 1987, 1990, 1991, 2000, 2003, 2010)
5 Big East Tournament (1981, 1988, 1992, 2005, 2006)
Awards
Naismith College Coach of the Year (2010)
AP Coach of the Year (2010)
NABC Coach of the Year (2010)
Henry Iba Award (2010)
The Sporting News National Coach of the Year (2010)
Clair Bee Coach of the Year (2000)
4× Big East Coach of the Year (1984, 1991, 2000, 2010)
John R. Wooden Legends of Coaching Award (2006)
Basketball Hall of Fame
Inducted in 2005
College Basketball Hall of Fame
Inducted in 2006
Medal record
Assistant Coach for  United States
men's national basketball team
Olympic Games
2008 BeijingTeam
2012 LondonTeam
2016 Rio de JaneiroTeam
FIBA World Championship
2010 TurkeyTeam
2014 SpainTeam
1990 ArgentinaTeam
2006 JapanTeam
FIBA Americas Championship
2007 Las VegasMen's Basketball

James Arthur Boeheim (/ˈbeɪhaɪm/; born November 17, 1944) is the current head coach of the men's basketball team at Syracuse University.[1][2][3] Boeheim has guided the Orange to ten Big East regular season championships, five Big East Tournament championships, and 33 NCAA Tournament appearances, including five Final Four appearances and 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.

Boeheim served as an assistant coach for the United States men's national basketball team at the 1990 FIBA World Championship, the 2006 FIBA World Championship, the 2008 Summer Olympics, the 2010 FIBA World Championship, the 2012 Summer Olympics, and the 2016 Summer Olympics.[4][5][6][7][8] In addition, Boeheim has served as the chairman of the USA Basketball 2009–12 Men's Junior National Committee, as well as the 2007–08 President of the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC), where he currently serves on the board of directors.[9][10][11] Boeheim was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in September 2005.[12] The Syracuse athletics scandal resulted in 101 of his wins being vacated by the NCAA in 2015.[13] Boeheim originally announced that he would retire in March 2018.[14] However, following the departure of his long-time assistant coach and expected successor Mike Hopkins, Boeheim extended his contract with Syracuse beyond 2017 for an unknown period of year(s).[15]

After suffering from cancer in 2001, Boeheim and his wife founded the Jim and Juli Boeheim Foundation devoted to child welfare, cancer treatment, and prevention.[16]

Career

Playing

Boeheim was born in Lyons, New York. He graduated from Lyons Central High School.

Boeheim enrolled in Syracuse University as a student in 1962, and graduated with a bachelor's degree in social science.[1] During his freshman year, Boeheim was a walk-on with the freshman basketball team. By his senior year he was the team captain and a teammate of All-American Dave Bing, his freshman roommate. The pair led coach Fred Lewis's Orange to a 22–6 overall win-loss record that earned the team's second-ever NCAA tournament berth. While at Syracuse, he joined the Delta Upsilon fraternity.

After graduating from Syracuse, Boeheim played professional basketball with the Scranton Miners of the Eastern Professional Basketball League, during which he won two championships[2] and was a second-team all-star (SU Athletics).

Coaching

In 1969, Boeheim decided to coach basketball and was hired as a graduate assistant at Syracuse under Roy Danforth. Soon thereafter he was promoted to a full-time assistant coach and was a member of the coaching staff that helped guide the Orange to its first Final Four appearance in the 1975 NCAA Tournament.

In 1976, Danforth left to become the head basketball coach and athletic director at Tulane University. A coaching search then led to nought, and Boeheim was promoted to head coach of his alma mater. Apart from his brief stint in the pros, Boeheim has spent his entire adult life at Syracuse University as a student, player, assistant coach or head coach, a rarity in modern-day major collegiate athletics. In 2018, CBSSports.com writer Matt Norlander emphasized this point in a piece where he speculated on potential successors for Boeheim, stating:

Boeheim does not have a parallel in major college athletics. There has never been a Division I coach in men's basketball, women's basketball or football who has spent more than 40 years at their alma mater and never coached anywhere else. Boeheim's the only one. There is no coaching figure more synonymous and literally affiliated with only one school.[17]

Norlander also noted that Boeheim entered the 2018–19 season with nearly as many wins on his official coaching record, and more when counting wins vacated by the NCAA, than all other permanent Syracuse head coaches combined, and in his various roles at Syracuse had been involved in over half of all men's basketball games in school history.[17]

In 1986 Boeheim was offered the head coaching job at Ohio State but turned it down to stay at Syracuse.[18]

During a Syracuse vs. Georgetown game, Hoyas star Patrick Ewing was nearly struck by an orange, and at times he had endured racial taunts from the SU student section. Boeheim borrowed a microphone and threatened to forfeit the game if fans continued to throw objects at Ewing.[19]

In 42 years as head coach at Syracuse, Boeheim has guided the Orange to postseason berths, either in the NCAA or NIT tournaments, in every year in which the Orange have been eligible. The only times the Orange missed the postseason was in 1993 when NCAA sanctions barred them from postseason play despite a 20–9 record and in 2015 when Syracuse University self-imposed a one-year postseason ban related to the 2015 NCAA sanctions against the University's sports programs. During his tenure, the Orange have never had a losing season, have appeared in three NCAA national championship games (1987, 1996, and 2003) and have won the national title in 2003.

Boeheim has been named Big East coach of the year four times, and has been named as District II Coach of the Year by the National Association of Basketball Coaches ten times. In 2004, Boeheim received two additional awards. The first was during the spring when he was awarded the Clair Bee Award in recognition of his contributions to the sport of basketball. During the fall of the same year Boeheim was presented with Syracuse University's Arents Award, the University's highest alumni honor.

Boeheim's coaching style at Syracuse is unusual in that, whereas many highly-successful coaches prefer the man-to-man defense, he demonstrates a preference for the match-up 2–3 zone defense.[2][20]

In an exhibition game on November 7, 2005 against Division II school Saint Rose from Albany, New York, Boeheim was ejected for the first time in his career after arguing a call late in the first half in the Orange's 86–73 victory. He was also ejected from Cameron Indoor Stadium on February 22, 2014 against Duke after arguing a player control foul call on C.J. Fair by referee Tony Greene.

Boeheim, Monty Williams, and Tom Thibodeau served as assistant coaches for the 2014 United States FIBA World Cup team.

Boeheim has also been a coach for USA national teams. In 2001, during his seventh year as a USA basketball coach, Boeheim helped lead the Young Men's Team to a gold medal at the World Championship in Japan. During the fall of that year he was named USA Basketball 2001 National Coach of the Year. He was an assistant coach under Mike Krzyzewski for the US national team in the 1990 FIBA World Championship and 2006 FIBA World Championship, winning the bronze medal both times.[4][5] He returned as an assistant coach under Mike Krzyzewski for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, and again at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, England, where the United States won the gold medal both times.

In the 2012–13 season, Boeheim led Syracuse to their first Final Four appearance since their 2003 NCAA National Championship. The Orange lost to the University of Michigan 61–56.

In the 2013–2014 season, led the Orange to the NCAA Tournament and lost in the third-round game versus the Dayton Flyers.

The Syracuse basketball program has been investigated for major NCAA violations on two separate occasions during Boeheim's tenure.[21][22]

NCAA violations and punishment

On March 6, 2015, the NCAA suspended Boeheim for the first nine games of the 2015–16 ACC conference games and took away 12 scholarships over a four-year period, as a result of a multi-year investigation into the university's athletic programs. The program was forced to vacate a total of 101 wins from the 2004–2005, 2005–2006, 2006–2007, 2010–2011, and 2011–2012 seasons, which included any game during those years where one or more of the players deemed to have been ineligible played. This constitutes the third-most wins ever permanently vacated by one program, behind the 113 wins vacated by Michigan and 123 wins by Louisville.[23]

Upon two separate appeals, Boeheim's nine-game suspension was upheld, though Boeheim was permitted to begin the suspension prior to ACC conference play as dictated in the original penalty. Additionally, the permanent vacating and erasure of 101 wins was upheld.[24][25] However, the number of scholarships lost by Syracuse was reduced to 8 over a four-year period, down from 12 over the same period.[24]

Retirement

Boeheim had previously stated that he would retire in April 2018.[14] However, in 2017 when his son committed to play at SU starting in 2018 he extended his contract to beyond the 2017–18 season.[26]

Records and accomplishments

Boeheim with his team at the 2013 NCAA Tournament

Head coaching record

Season Team Overall Conference Standing Postseason
Syracuse Orangemen (NCAA Division I independent) (1976–1979)
1976–77 Syracuse 26–4NCAA Division I Sweet 16
1977–78 Syracuse 22–6NCAA Division I Round of 32
1978–79 Syracuse 26–4NCAA Division I Sweet 16
Syracuse Orangemen/Orange (Big East Conference) (1979–2013)
1979–80 Syracuse 26–45–1T–1stNCAA Division I Sweet 16
1980–81 Syracuse 22–126–86thNIT Runner-up
1981–82 Syracuse 16–137–7T–5thNIT Round of 32
1982–83 Syracuse 21–109–75thNCAA Division I Round of 32
1983–84 Syracuse 23–912–4T–2ndNCAA Division I Sweet 16
1984–85 Syracuse 22–99–7T–3rdNCAA Division I Round of 32
1985–86 Syracuse 26–614–2T–1stNCAA Division I Round of 32
1986–87 Syracuse 31–712–4T–1stNCAA Division I Runner-up
1987–88 Syracuse 26–911–52ndNCAA Division I Round of 32
1988–89 Syracuse 30–810–63rdNCAA Division I Elite Eight
1989–90 Syracuse 26–712–4T–1stNCAA Division I Sweet 16
1990–91 Syracuse 26–612–41stNCAA Division I Round of 64
1991–92 Syracuse 22–1010–8T–5thNCAA Division I Round of 32
1992–93 Syracuse 20–910–83rdIneligible
1993–94 Syracuse 23–713–52ndNCAA Division I Sweet 16
1994–95 Syracuse 20–1012–63rdNCAA Division I Round of 32
1995–96 Syracuse 29–912–62nd (BE 7)NCAA Division I Runner-up
1996–97 Syracuse 19–139–9T–4th (BE 7)NIT Round of 64
1997–98 Syracuse 26–912–61st (BE 7)NCAA Division I Sweet 16
1998–99 Syracuse 21–1210–8T–4thNCAA Division I Round of 64
1999–00 Syracuse 26–613–3T–1stNCAA Division I Sweet 16
2000–01 Syracuse 25–910–6T–2nd (West) NCAA Division I Round of 32
2001–02 Syracuse 23–139–7T–3rd (West) NIT Fourth Place
2002–03 Syracuse 30–513–3T–1st (West) NCAA Division I Champion
2003–04 Syracuse 23–811–5T–3rdNCAA Division I Sweet 16
2004–05 Syracuse 12–7*11–5**NCAA Division I Round of 64*
2005–06 Syracuse 0–12*0–9**NCAA Division I Round of 64*
2006–07 Syracuse 2–11*2–6**NIT Quarterfinal*
2007–08 Syracuse 21–149–9T–8thNIT Quarterfinal
2008–09 Syracuse 28–1011–76thNCAA Division I Sweet 16
2009–10 Syracuse 30–515–31stNCAA Division I Sweet 16
2010–11 Syracuse 20–8*12–6**NCAA Division I Round of 32*
2011–12 Syracuse 0–3*0–1**NCAA Division I Elite Eight*
2012–13 Syracuse 30–1011–75thNCAA Division I Final Four
Syracuse Orange (Atlantic Coast Conference) (2013–present)
2013–14 Syracuse 28–614–42ndNCAA Division I Round of 32
2014–15 Syracuse 18–139–98thIneligible
2015–16 Syracuse 19–9**9–6**T–9thNCAA Division I Final Four
2016–17 Syracuse 19–1510–8T–7thNIT Second Round
2017–18 Syracuse 23–148–10T–10thNCAA Division I Sweet 16
Syracuse: 926–368 (.716)***381–229 (.625)
Total:926–368 (.716)***

      National champion         Postseason invitational champion  
      Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
      Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion
      Conference tournament champion

* The NCAA vacated 15 wins from the 2004–05 season, 23 wins from the 2005–06 season, 22 wins from the 2006–07 season, 7 wins from the 2010–11 season, and 34 wins from the 2011–12 season as a result of the Syracuse athletics scandal.[27]

** Boeheim was suspended for nine games during the 2015–16 season, during which Syracuse went 4–5 overall, and 0–3 in conference. So while the team's record was 23–14 overall, 9–9 in conference, Boeheim is credited with 19–9 overall, 9–6 in conference.

*** Boeheim's official NCAA record excludes the aforementioned 101 vacated wins as well as the games during his nine-game suspension in 2015–2016.

Accomplishments

Boeheim's notable accomplishments during his long and illustrious career:

  • Led Syracuse University to a national championship (2003)
  • Led Syracuse University to 3 national championship game appearances
(1987, 1996, 2003)
  • Led Syracuse University to 5 Final Four appearances
(1987, 1996, 2003, 2013, 2016)
  • Led Syracuse University to 7 Elite Eight appearances
(1987, 1989, 1996, 2003, 2012, 2013, 2016)
  • Led Syracuse University to 19 Sweet Sixteen appearances
(1977, 1979, 1980, 1984, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2018)
  • Led Syracuse University to 33 NCAA Tournament appearances
(1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2018)
  • Led Syracuse University to eight Big East regular season championships
(1980, 1986, 1987, 1990, 1991, 2000, 2003, 2010)
  • Led Syracuse University to five Big East tournament championships
(1981, 1988, 1992, 2005, 2006)
  • Leads all Big East coaches (past and present) in wins (366)
  • Ranks sixth among active Division I coaches (min. 10 years) in winning percentage (.750)[28]
  • In 38 seasons at Syracuse, has compiled 31 20-win seasons, good for most on the all-time list[28]
  • Became only the 14th coach ever to reach 750 wins (2007)[28]
  • Four-time Big East Coach of the Year (1984, 1991, 2000, 2010)
  • USA Basketball's National Coach of the Year (2001)
  • Under Boeheim, the Orange have only missed the NCAA Tournament two years in a row twice
  • In recognition of Boeheim's numerous accomplishments as SU's head coach, the University named the Carrier Dome court "Jim Boeheim Court" on February 24, 2002.[29][30]
  • Basketball Hall of Fame (2005) as a coach[31]
  • Joined Mike Krzyzewski and Jim Calhoun as the third active coach with 800 wins.[32]
  • Coached the Orange to a six overtime win against the UConn Huskies, 127–117, the longest game in the history of Big East Conference play.[33]
  • Named 2010 Naismith Coach of the Year (along with the same honor from the AP, Sporting News and many others) after leading Syracuse to an unexpected 30–5 record.
  • On December 17, 2012, Boeheim became the third coach in NCAA men's basketball history to reach 900 wins, along with Bob Knight and Mike Krzyzewski.[34] 101 of those wins were vacated in 2015 after an NCAA investigation. On February 7, 2017, Boeheim officially reached this milestone again.

Coaching tree

These former assistant coaches or players of Boeheim later became head coaches at the collegiate level or higher.

Additionally, all three assistants on Boeheim's 2017–18 coaching staff played at Syracuse under Boeheim: Adrian Autry, Gerry McNamara, and Allen Griffin.[35]

Personal life

Boeheim appeared in the movie Blue Chips, with Nick Nolte and Shaquille O'Neal, playing himself. Boeheim also appeared in the Spike Lee movie He Got Game, again playing himself. Boeheim has appeared in numerous commercials throughout Central New York, and also had a spot in a nationwide Nike Jordan ad featuring former Syracuse great Carmelo Anthony. Boeheim likes to listen to the music of Bruce Springsteen. In an interview, he said that he had no interest in pursuing any other career other than coaching Little League after he retires from coaching basketball.

Boeheim had prostate cancer in 2001, and subsequently became a major fund-raiser for Coaches vs. Cancer, a non-profit collaboration between the NABC and the American Cancer Society,[1] through which he has helped raise more than US$4.5 million for ACS's Central New York chapter since 2000.[36][37][38] In 2009, Boeheim and his wife, Juli, founded the Jim and Juli Boeheim Foundation, to expand their charitable mission to organizations around Central New York concerned with child welfare, as well as cancer treatment and prevention.[39]

Boeheim and his wife, Juli,[1] have three children together: Jimmy and twins, Buddy and Jamie; he has a daughter, Elizabeth, with former wife Elaine.[1]. Son Jimmy plays for Cornell [40]. Starting in the 2018-19 season, daughter Jamie will play basketball at the University of Rochester [41] and son Buddy will join his father at Syracuse.[42]

See also

References

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  2. 1 2 3 "Orange Hoops Profile". orangehoops.org. Retrieved November 19, 2007.
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  4. 1 2 "1990 USA Basketball". USA Basketball. August 8–19, 1990. Archived from the original on October 14, 2007. Retrieved November 19, 2007.
  5. 1 2 "2006 USA Basketball". USA Basketball. August 19 – September 3, 2006. Archived from the original on October 14, 2007. Retrieved November 19, 2007.
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  7. ↑ "Krzyzewski continues as U.S. basketball coach". Reuters. July 21, 2009. Retrieved November 9, 2009.
  8. ↑ "Jim Boeheim talks about another gold medal; recruiting, Lebron vs Jordan, and more (podcast)". Syracuse.com. August 19, 2012. Retrieved September 13, 2012.
  9. ↑ "USA Basketball Announces 2009–12 Committees". USA Basketball. Archived from the original on April 4, 2009. Retrieved March 26, 2009.
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  11. ↑ "2012–13 NABC Board of Directors". National Association of Basketball Coaches. Retrieved September 13, 2012.
  12. ↑ "Basketball Hall of Fame Profile". hoophall.com. Archived from the original on February 12, 2008. Retrieved December 31, 2008.
  13. ↑ "Syracuse wins back 1 scholarship per year in NCAA appeal, still must vacate wins". syracuse.com. Retrieved August 22, 2016.
  14. 1 2 "Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim to retire in three years". 18 March 2015. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
  15. ↑ Becker, Jake (20 March 2017). "Jim Boeheim delays retirement, signs contract extension with Syracuse". New York Daily News. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
  16. ↑ Waters, Mike (May 20, 2012). "Syracuse basketball coach Jim Boeheim keeps working for cancer breakthrough". syracuse.com. Retrieved March 10, 2015.
  17. 1 2 Norlander, Matt (September 14, 2018). "Jim Boeheim is synonymous with Syracuse basketball, but one day he'll be replaced and here's who might get the job". CBSSports.com. Retrieved October 2, 2018.
  18. ↑ "Rejects OSU Job". Syracuse, New York: The Bryan Times. March 11, 1986. Retrieved March 6, 2013.
  19. ↑ Patrick Ewing. Georgetown Basketball History Project]
  20. ↑ "Looking inside the Syracuse 2–3 zone". ESPN.com. January 13, 2003. Retrieved January 22, 2006.
  21. ↑ "Syracuse Gets Lighter Penalty Than Expected : College basketball: Sanctions include a ban from NCAA tournament this season and two years' probation for the school's athletic program". Los Angeles Times. Associated Press. October 2, 1992. Retrieved March 10, 2015.
  22. ↑ McMurphy, Brett (October 29, 2014). "SU basketball, football focus of NCAA". ESPN.com. Retrieved March 6, 2015.
  23. ↑ Schonbrun, Zach (March 6, 2015). "Faulting Coach Jim Boeheim, N.C.A.A. Hits Syracuse Hard". The New York Times. Retrieved March 6, 2015.
  24. 1 2 Syracuse Orange Appeal of Sanctions Rewarded, accessed December 26, 2015
  25. ↑ NCAA Upholds 9 Game Suspension for Jim Boeheim, accessed December 26, 2015
  26. ↑ Axe, Brent (20 March 2017). "Jim Boeheim's contract extension proves again that Syracuse needs him on that wall". Post Standard. Retrieved 28 May 2017.
  27. ↑ "NCAA Career Statistics". NCAA. Retrieved August 22, 2016.
  28. 1 2 3 "NCAA Division I Coaching Records" (PDF). NCAA. August 23, 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 27, 2008. Retrieved November 19, 2007.
  29. ↑ "SU to name Carrier Dome Court in honor of Jim Boeheim". suathletics.com. December 21, 2001. Retrieved December 1, 2007.
  30. ↑ "Mayoral decree of Jim Boeheim day" (PDF). Syracuse Mayor Matt Driscoll. February 24, 2002. Retrieved December 1, 2007.
  31. ↑ "Basketball Hall of Fame Profile". Basketball Hall of Fame. September 2005. Archived from the original on October 12, 2007. Retrieved November 19, 2007.
  32. ↑ "Boeheim wins 800th as Syracuse takes opener". ESPN.com. Associated Press. November 9, 2009. Retrieved March 6, 2015.
  33. ↑ "Syracuse survives 6OT thriller vs. Connecticut". ESPN.com. Associated Press. March 13, 2009. Retrieved March 6, 2015.
  34. ↑ "Syracuse's Jim Boeheim wins 900th game". USA Today. December 17, 2012. Retrieved December 18, 2012.
  35. ↑ "Syracuse hires former hoops star Allen Griffin as assistant". ESPN. 7 April 2017. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
  36. ↑ Katz, Andy (August 6, 2009). "Off the court Boeheim focuses on helping others beat cancer". ESPN.com. Retrieved March 6, 2015.
  37. ↑ "Jim Boeheim's personal crusade – fighting cancer". nabc.cstv.com. Retrieved December 31, 2008.
  38. ↑ Ogle, Mike (March 26, 2009). "Boeheim the Coach Outdone by Boeheim the Fund-Raiser". The New York Times. Retrieved March 26, 2009.
  39. ↑ Waters, Mike (May 30, 2012). "Syracuse basketball coach Jim Boeheim keeps working for cancer breakthrough". Syracuse.com. Retrieved September 13, 2012.
  40. ↑ https://cornellbigred.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=43970
  41. ↑ http://highschoolsports.syracuse.com/news/article/7045921538427281803/jamie-boeheim-to-play-basketball-at-university-of-rochester-next-year/
  42. ↑ https://www.syracuse.com/orangebasketball/index.ssf/2018/09/jim_boeheim_on_buddy_elijah_hughes_oshae_brissett_and_the_start_of_practice.html
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