Jim Boeheim

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Jim Boeheim
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Jim Boeheim on the court at HSBC Arena in Buffalo, NY, prior to the start of the 2010 NCAA Tournament.
Sport(s) Basketball
Current position
Title Head coach
Team Syracuse
Conference Big East
Record 920–313 (.746)
Biographical details
Born (1944-11-17) November 17, 1944 (age 68)
Lyons, New York, USA
Playing career
1962–1966 Syracuse
Position(s) Guard
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1969–1976
1990
2006–2012
1976–present		 Syracuse (asst.)
United States (asst.)
United States (asst.)
Syracuse
Head coaching record
Overall 920–313 (.746)
Tournaments 46–27 (NCAA Tournament) (.630)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
NCAA Division I National Championship (2003)
Regional Championships – Final Four (1987, 1996, 2003, 2013)
Big East Tournament Championship (1981, 1988,
1992, 2005, 2006)
Big East Regular Season Championship (1980, 1986, 1987, 1990, 1991, 2000, 2003, 2010, 2012)
Gold medal – Men's Basketball (2008 Summer Olympics)
Gold medal – FIBA World Championship (2010)
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)
Big East Coach of the Year (1984, 1991, 2000, 2010)
John R. Wooden Legends of Coaching Award (2006)
Clair Bee Coach of the Year (2000)
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
Gold 2008 Beijing Men's Basketball
Gold 2012 London Men's Basketball
FIBA World Championship
Bronze 1990 Argentina Men's Basketball
Bronze 2006 Japan Men's Basketball
Gold 2010 Turkey Men's Basketball
FIBA Americas Championship
Gold 2007 Las Vegas Men's Basketball

James Arthur "Jim" Boeheim (/ˈbeɪhaɪm/; born November 17, 1944) is the head coach of the men's basketball team at Syracuse University.[1][2][3] 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 and Kentucky in 1996 before defeating Kansas in 2003.

Boeheim is currently second on the wins list of Men's NCAA Division I coaches. Only Mike Krzyzewski of Duke University has more wins, with a career record of 948 wins, achieved at two different schools, Army (73) and Duke (869). Boeheim earned his 880th win on February 8, 2012, surpassing Dean Smith's 879 wins at North Carolina, for the most career wins as head coach at a single school. With a win over Rutgers on January 2, 2013, Boeheim passed Bobby Knight for second on the all-time wins list, with 903 career victories.

Boeheim has 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, and the 2012 Summer Olympics.[4][5][6][7][8] In these outings, Team USA finished with two bronze medals and three gold medals, respectively. In addition, Boeheim currently serves as the chairman of the USA Basketball 2009–12 Men's Junior National Committee, has served as the 2007–08 President of the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC), and currently sits on its Board of Directors.[9][10][11] For his accomplishments, Boeheim was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in September 2005.[12]

Off the court, he battled prostate cancer in 2001, and has subsequently become a major fund-raiser for Coaches vs. Cancer, a non-profit collaboration between the NABC and the American Cancer Society, through which he has helped raise more than $4.5 million for ACS's Central New York chapter since 2000.[13][14][15] 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.[16]

Contents

Career[edit]

Playing[edit]

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 men's 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 the Orange to a 22–6 overall win-loss record that earned the team's second-ever NCAA tournament berth. After graduating from Syracuse, Boeheim played professional basketball with the Scranton Miners of the American Basketball League during which he won two championships[2] and was a second-team all-star (SU Athletics). While at Syracuse University he joined the Delta Upsilon fraternity.

Coaching[edit]

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 1975.

In 1976, Danforth left to become head basketball coach and athletic director at Tulane University. A coaching search then led to naught, and Boeheim was promoted to be the head coach of his alma mater. Apart from his brief stint in the pros, Boeheim has spent his entire adult life at Syracuse as a player, assistant coach or head coach, a rarity in modern-day major collegiate athletics. In 1986 Boeheim was offered the head coaching job at Ohio State, but turned it down to stay at Syracuse.[17]

In 37 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 time the Orange missed the postseason was 1993, when NCAA sanctions barred them from postseason play despite a 20–9 record. 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 of the more successful coaches prefer the man-to-man defense, he demonstrates an overwhelming preference for the 2–3 zone defense.[2][18]

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.

Boeheim has also been a coach for the USA national team. 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.

Records and accomplishments[edit]

Head coaching record[edit]

Season Team Overall Conference Standing Postseason
Syracuse (NCAA Division I Independent) (1976–1979)
1976–1977 Syracuse 26–4 NCAA Sweet Sixteen
1977–1978 Syracuse 22–6 NCAA First Round
1978–1979 Syracuse 26–4 NCAA Sweet Sixteen
Syracuse (Big East Conference) (1979–2013)
1979–1980 Syracuse 26–4 5–1 T–1st NCAA Sweet Sixteen
1980–1981 Syracuse 22–12 6–8 6th NIT Runner-up
1981–1982 Syracuse 16–13 7–7 T–5th NIT Second Round
1982–1983 Syracuse 21–10 9–7 5th NCAA Second Round
1983–1984 Syracuse 23–9 12–4 T–2nd NCAA Sweet Sixteen
1984–1985 Syracuse 22–9 9–7 T–3rd NCAA Second Round
1985–1986 Syracuse 26–6 14–2 T–1st NCAA Second Round
1986–1987 Syracuse 31–7 12–4 T–1st NCAA Runner-up
1987–1988 Syracuse 26–9 11–5 2nd NCAA Second Round
1988–1989 Syracuse 30–8 10–6 3rd NCAA Elite Eight
1989–1990 Syracuse 26–7 12–4 T–1st NCAA Sweet Sixteen
1990–1991 Syracuse 26–6 12–4 1st NCAA First Round
1991–1992 Syracuse 22–10 10–8 T–5th NCAA Second Round
1992–1993 Syracuse 20–9 10–8 3rd None (NCAA Violations)
1993–1994 Syracuse 23–7 13–5 2nd NCAA Sweet Sixteen
1994–1995 Syracuse 20–10 12–6 3rd NCAA Second Round
1995–1996 Syracuse 29–9 12–6 2nd (BE 7) NCAA Runner-up
1996–1997 Syracuse 19–13 9–9 T–4th (BE 7) NIT First Round
1997–1998 Syracuse 26–9 12–6 1st (BE 7) NCAA Sweet Sixteen
1998–1999 Syracuse 21–12 10–8 T–4th NCAA First Round
1999–2000 Syracuse 26–6 13–3 T–1st NCAA Sweet Sixteen
2000–2001 Syracuse 25–9 10–6 T–2nd (West) NCAA Second Round
2001–2002 Syracuse 23–13 9–7 T–3rd (West) NIT Semifinals
2002–2003 Syracuse 30–5 13–3 T–1st (West) NCAA Champions
2003–2004 Syracuse 23–8 11–5 T–3rd NCAA Sweet Sixteen
2004–2005 Syracuse 27–7 11–5 T–3rd NCAA First Round
2005–2006 Syracuse 23–12 7–9 T–9th NCAA First Round
2006–2007 Syracuse 24–11 10–6 5th NIT Quarterfinals
2007–2008 Syracuse 21–14 9–9 T–8th NIT Quarterfinals
2008–2009 Syracuse 28–10 11–7 6th NCAA Sweet Sixteen
2009–2010 Syracuse 30–5 15–3 1st NCAA Sweet Sixteen
2010–2011 Syracuse 27–8 12–6 T–3rd NCAA Third Round
2011–2012 Syracuse 34–3 17–1 1st NCAA Elite Eight
2012–2013 Syracuse 30–10 11–7 5th NCAA Final Four
Syracuse (Atlantic Coast Conference) (2013–present)
2013–2014 Syracuse 0–0 0–0
Syracuse: 920–313 (.746) 362–191 (.655)
Total: 920–313 (.746)

      National champion         Conference regular season champion         Conference tournament champion
      Conference regular season and conference tournament champion       Conference division champion

Accomplishments[edit]

Some of Boeheim's notable accomplishments current as of March 23, 2013:

  • Led Syracuse University to the 2003 NCAA national championship
  • Led Syracuse University to three national championship game appearances
(1987, 1996, 2003)
  • Led Syracuse University to four Final Four appearances
(1987, 1996, 2003, 2013)
  • Led Syracuse University to six Elite Eight appearances
(1987, 1989, 1996, 2003, 2012, 2013)
  • Led Syracuse University to 17 Sweet Sixteen appearances
(1977, 1979, 1980, 1984, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013)
  • Led Syracuse University to 30 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)
  • Led Syracuse University to nine Big East regular season championships
(1980, 1986, 1987, 1990, 1991, 2000, 2003, 2010, 2012)
  • Led Syracuse University to five Big East tournament championships
(1981, 1988, 1992, 2005, 2006)
  • Currently ranks second among active coaches in career wins (920)[19]
  • Currently ranks second all-time in Division I wins with 920.[20]
  • Leads all Big East coaches (past and present) in wins. (366)
  • Ranks sixth among active Division I coaches (min. 10 years) in winning percentage (.746)[19]
  • In 36 seasons at Syracuse, has compiled 34 20-win seasons, good for most on the all-time list[19]
  • Became only the 14th coach ever to reach 750 wins (2007)[19]
  • 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.[21][22]
  • Basketball Hall of Fame (2005) as a coach[23]
  • Joined Mike Krzyzewski and Jim Calhoun as the third active coach with 800 wins.[24]
  • 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.[25]
  • 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 Boehiem became the third coach in NCAA men's basketball history to reach 900 wins, along with Bob Knight and Mike Krzyzewski.[26]

Personal life[edit]

According to an interview conducted by The Post-Standard in 2005, Boeheim enjoys watching television. He cites ER and CSI: Miami as two of his favorite TV shows, and also watches Desperate Housewives and NYPD Blue. 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 the interview, he states that he has no interest in pursuing any other career after he retires from coaching basketball other than coaching Little League. Boeheim fought a personal battle with cancer, which has led to his devotion to the "Coaches vs. Cancer" tournament that raises awareness of cancer.[1] Boeheim and his wife, Juli,[1] have three children: James, and twins Jack and Jamie. He also has a daughter, Elizabeth, from a previous marriage.[1]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e "SU Athletics Profile". suathletics.com. Retrieved November 19, 2007. 
  2. ^ a b c "Orange Hoops Profile". orangehoops.org. Retrieved November 19, 2007. 
  3. ^ "USA Basketball Profile". USA Basketball. Archived from the original on October 29, 2007. Retrieved November 19, 2007. 
  4. ^ a b "1990 USA Basketball". USA Basketball. August 8–19, 1990. Archived from the original on October 14, 2007. Retrieved November 19, 2007. 
  5. ^ a b "2006 USA Basketball". USA Basketball. August 19 – September 3, 2006. Archived from the original on October 14, 2007. Retrieved November 19, 2007. 
  6. ^ "Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim will return as Mike Krzyzewski's USA Basketball assistant coach". Syracuse.com. July 21, 2009. Retrieved November 9, 2009. 
  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. Retrieved 2009-03-36. 
  10. ^ "NABC Presidents". National Association of Basketball Coaches. Retrieved September 13, 2012. 
  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. ^ "Off the court Boeheim focuses on helping others beat cancer". ESPN. Retrieved December 31, 2008. 
  14. ^ "Jim Boeheim's personal crusade – fighting cancer". nabc.cstv.com. Retrieved December 31, 2008. 
  15. ^ Ogle, Mike (March 26, 2009). "Boeheim the Coach Outdone by Boeheim the Fund-Raiser". The New York Times. Retrieved March 26, 2009. 
  16. ^ Waters, Mike (May 30, 2012). "Syracuse basketball coach Jim Boeheim keeps working for cancer breakthrough". Syracuse.com. Retrieved September 13, 2012. 
  17. ^ "Rejects OSU Job". Syracuse, New York: The Bryan Times. March 11, 1986. Retrieved 6 March 2013. 
  18. ^ "Looking inside the Syracuse 2–3 zone". ESPN.com. January 13, 2003. Retrieved January 22, 2006. 
  19. ^ a b c d "NCAA Division I Coaching Records" (PDF). NCAA. August 23, 2007. Archived from the original on February 27, 2008. Retrieved November 19, 2007. 
  20. ^ Waters, Mike (January 2, 2013). "Syracuse routs Rutgers as Jim Boeheim passes Bob Knight on all-time coaching wins list". Retrieved January 2, 2013. 
  21. ^ "SU to name Carrier Dome Court in honor of Jim Boeheim". suathletics.com. December 21, 2001. Retrieved December 1, 2007. 
  22. ^ "Mayoral decree of Jim Boeheim day" (PDF). Syracuse Mayor Matt Driscoll. February 24, 2002. Retrieved December 1, 2007. 
  23. ^ "Basketball Hall of Fame Profile". Basketball Hall of Fame. September 2005. Archived from the original on October 12, 2007. Retrieved November 19, 2007. 
  24. ^ "Boeheim becomes 8th Div. I coach with 800 wins as Syracuse rolls". ESPN. November 2009. Retrieved 2009-12-126. 
  25. ^ "Syracuse survives longest game in Big East history with epic win over UConn". ESPN. March 2009. Retrieved 2009-12-126. 
  26. ^ "Syracuse's Jim Boeheim wins 900th game". USA Today. Retrieved 18 December 2012. 

External links[edit]

Current men's basketball head coaches of the Atlantic Coast Conference
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