Jim Boeheim

Jim Boeheim

Boeheim in 2014
Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	Syracuse
Conference	ACC
Record	966–327 (.747)
Biographical details
Born	(1944-11-17) November 17, 1944 Lyons, New York
Playing career
Position(s)	Guard
Head coaching record
Overall	966–327 (.747)
Tournaments	47–28 (NCAA)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
1 NCAA Division I Tournament Championship (2003) 4 NCAA Regional Championships – Final Four (1987, 1996, 2003, 2013) 5 Big East Tournament Championships (1981, 1988, 1992, 2005, 2006) 9 Big East Regular Season Championships (1980, 1986, 1987, 1990, 1991, 2000, 2003, 2010, 2012) Gold medal – Men's Basketball (2008 Summer Olympics) Gold medal – FIBA World Championship (2010)
Awards
1 Naismith College Coach of the Year (2010) 1 AP Coach of the Year (2010) 1 NABC Coach of the Year (2010) 1 Henry Iba Award (2010) 1 The Sporting News National Coach of the Year (2010) 1 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 Beijing Men's Basketball 2012 London Men's Basketball FIBA World Championship 1990 Argentina Men's Basketball 2006 Japan Men's Basketball 2010 Turkey Men's Basketball FIBA Americas Championship 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. 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 Kentucky in 1996 before defeating Kansas in 2003 with All-American Carmelo Anthony.

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 1,007 wins, achieved at two different schools, Army (73) and Duke (934). 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. Boeheim is one of only four coaches, along with Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski, and Rick Pitino, to take his school to the Final Four in four decades.

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. 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. Boeheim was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in September 2005.

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.

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. 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 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 and was a second-team all-star (SU Athletics). While at Syracuse, he joined the Delta Upsilon fraternity.

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 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 student, 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.

In 39 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 highly-successful coaches prefer the man-to-man defense, he demonstrates an overwhelming preference for the 2–3 zone defense.

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 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. 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, 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. The NCAA on Friday March 6th 2015 has suspended Syracuse basketball coach Jim Boeheim for nine ACC games and has taken away scholarships as a result of a multiyear investigation into the university's athletic programs

Records and accomplishments

Boeheim with his team at the 2013 NCAA Tournament.

Head coaching record

Statistics overview

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Syracuse Orangemen (NCAA Division I independent) (1976–1979)
1976–77	Syracuse	26–4			NCAA Sweet Sixteen
1977–78	Syracuse	22–6			NCAA First Round
1978–79	Syracuse	26–4			NCAA Sweet Sixteen
Syracuse Orangemen/Orange (Big East Conference) (1979–2013)
1979–80	Syracuse	26–4	5–1	T–1st	NCAA Sweet Sixteen
1980–81	Syracuse	22–12	6–8	6th	NIT Runner-up
1981–82	Syracuse	16–13	7–7	T–5th	NIT Second Round
1982–83	Syracuse	21–10	9–7	5th	NCAA Second Round
1983–84	Syracuse	23–9	12–4	T–2nd	NCAA Sweet Sixteen
1984–85	Syracuse	22–9	9–7	T–3rd	NCAA Second Round
1985–86	Syracuse	26–6	14–2	T–1st	NCAA Second Round
1986–87	Syracuse	31–7	12–4	T–1st	NCAA Runner-up
1987–88	Syracuse	26–9	11–5	2nd	NCAA Second Round
1988–89	Syracuse	30–8	10–6	3rd	NCAA Elite Eight
1989–90	Syracuse	26–7	12–4	T–1st	NCAA Sweet Sixteen
1990–91	Syracuse	26–6	12–4	1st	NCAA First Round
1991–92	Syracuse	22–10	10–8	T–5th	NCAA Second Round
1992–93	Syracuse	20–9	10–8	3rd	Ineligible
1993–94	Syracuse	23–7	13–5	2nd	NCAA Sweet Sixteen
1994–95	Syracuse	20–10	12–6	3rd	NCAA Second Round
1995–96	Syracuse	29–9	12–6	2nd (BE 7)	NCAA Runner-up
1996–97	Syracuse	19–13	9–9	T–4th (BE 7)	NIT First Round
1997–98	Syracuse	26–9	12–6	1st (BE 7)	NCAA Sweet Sixteen
1998–99	Syracuse	21–12	10–8	T–4th	NCAA First Round
1999–00	Syracuse	26–6	13–3	T–1st	NCAA Sweet Sixteen
2000–01	Syracuse	25–9	10–6	T–2nd (West)	NCAA Second Round
2001–02	Syracuse	23–13	9–7	T–3rd (West)	NIT Semifinals
2002–03	Syracuse	30–5	13–3	T–1st (West)	NCAA Champions
2003–04	Syracuse	23–8	11–5	T–3rd	NCAA Sweet Sixteen
2004–05	Syracuse	27–7	11–5	T–3rd	NCAA First Round
2005–06	Syracuse	23–12	7–9	T–9th	NCAA First Round
2006–07	Syracuse	24–11	10–6	5th	NIT Quarterfinals
2007–08	Syracuse	21–14	9–9	T–8th	NIT Quarterfinals
2008–09	Syracuse	28–10	11–7	6th	NCAA Sweet Sixteen
2009–10	Syracuse	30–5	15–3	1st	NCAA Sweet Sixteen
2010–11	Syracuse	27–8	12–6	T–3rd	NCAA Third Round
2011–12	Syracuse	34–3	17–1	1st	NCAA Elite Eight
2012–13	Syracuse	30–10	11–7	5th	NCAA Final Four
Syracuse Orange (Atlantic Coast Conference) (2013–present)
2013–14	Syracuse	28–6	14–4	2nd	NCAA Third Round
2014–15	Syracuse	18–11	9–7	6th	Ineligible
Syracuse:		966–331 (.745)	389–201 (.659)
Total:		966–331 (.745)
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

Accomplishments

Some of Boeheim's notable accomplishments current as of February 1, 2014:

• 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 (941)
• Currently ranks second all-time in Division I wins with 941.
• 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)
• In 38 seasons at Syracuse, has compiled 36 20-win seasons, good for most on the all-time list
• Became only the 14th coach ever to reach 750 wins (2007)
• 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.
• Basketball Hall of Fame (2005) as a coach
• Joined Mike Krzyzewski and Jim Calhoun as the third active coach with 800 wins.
• 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.
• 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.

Personal life

According to an interview conducted by The Post-Standard in 2005, Boeheim enjoys watching television. ER and CSI: Miami are two of his favorite shows, and he 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 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, through which he has helped raise more than US$4.5 million for ACS's Central New York chapter since 2000. 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.

Boeheim and his wife, Juli, have three children, James and twins Jack and Jamie. He also has a daughter, Elizabeth, with former wife Elaine.

See also

• List of college men's basketball coaches with 600 wins

External links

• Jim Boeheim at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
• OrangeHoops.org with a Boeheims' profile