JIM BOEHEIM

'James Arthur "Jim" Boeheim' (IPA: [ˈbeʲ.haʲm]) (born November 17, 1944 in Lyons, New York) is the men's basketball head coach for Syracuse University. In his twenty-ninth season as head coach for Syracuse, he earned his 700th victory, becoming only the eighteenth coach in Division I history to reach the career 700-win milestone (SU Athletics). His thirty-one season career includes twenty-nine 20-win seasons, putting him in second-place on the all-time Division I list in that category. In addition, as of 2005, Boeheim is eighth in Division I NCAA tournament wins with forty-one (CBS Sportsline). On January 25, 2007 Jim Boeheim coached his 1000th career game. On March 19, 2007, Boeheim won his 750th game against San Diego State.
On Monday, April 4, 2005 it was announced that Boeheim would be inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame; that event occurred in September 2005. Boeheim has guided the Syracuse Orangemen (known as the Orange since 2004) to three NCAA championship game appearances. The Orange defeated Kansas in 2003 for the national title after losing to Indiana in 1987 and Kentucky in 1996.

Contents

Career

Personal

Accomplishments

Notable players coached by Boeheim

References

Career

Jim Boeheim graduated from Lyons Central High School. Boeheim enrolled in Syracuse University as a student in 1963 and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in social science in 1969(SU Athletics). 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. 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 Scranton of the Eastern League during which he won two championships and was a second-team all-star (SU Athletics). While at Syracuse University he joined The Delta Upsilon Fraternity.
In 1969, Boeheim decided to coach basketball and was hired as a graduate assistant at Syracuse. 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. Coach Roy Danforth, the head coach at the time, was hired away from Syracuse University. A coaching search then led to naught, and, in 1976, Boeheim was promoted to be the head coach of his alma mater, thus making him one of the rare individuals to spend his '''entire''' college basketball career (player, assistant coach, and head coach) at only one school. In his thirty-one years as head coach at Syracuse, Boeheim has guided the Orange to postseason berths, either in the NCAA or NIT tournaments, in all but one of his seasons (SU Athletics). During his tenure, the Orange has appeared in three NCAA national championship games (1987, 1996, and 2003) and won the national title in 2003.
After his twenty-ninth season, Boeheim ranked fifth among active Division I coaches in winning percentage and tied for sixth in victories (SU Athletics). 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 (SU Athletics).
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.^{[1] [2]}
Boeheim has also been named three-time Big East coach of the year, and has been awarded ten times as District II Coach of the Year by the National Association of Basketball Coaches. In 2004, Boeheim received two additional awards. The first was during the spring when he was awarded the Claire 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.
In 2001, during his seventh year as a USA basketball coach, Boeheim helped lead the USA Basketball 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.
On May 9, 2005 Boeheim agreed on a four-year contract extension to remain as Syracuse’s head men’s basketball coach. (CBS Sportsline).
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's coaching style 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. [1]

Personal

According to an interview conducted by ''The Post-Standard'' in 2005, Boeheim enjoys watching television. He cites ''ER'' and '' as two of his favorite TV shows, and also watches ''Desperate Housewives'' and ''NYPD Blue''. Boeheim also appeared in the movie ''Blue Chips'', with Nick Nolte and Shaquille O'Neal, playing himself. 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 (SU Athletics). Boeheim is married to Juli, twenty-two years his junior. They have three children: James, and twins Jack and Jamie. He also has a daugher, Elizabeth, from a previous marriage (SU Athletics).

Accomplishments

'Jim Boeheim Career'
Season	Team	Wins	Losses	Postseason
1976-1977	Syracuse	26	4	Lost in NCAA Sweet 16
1977-1978	Syracuse	22	6	Lost in NCAA 1st Rd
1978-1979	Syracuse	26	4	Lost in NCAA Sweet 16
1979-1980	Syracuse	26	4	Lost in NCAA Sweet 16
1980-1981	Syracuse	22	12	Lost in NIT Final
1981-1982	Syracuse	16	13	Lost in NIT 2nd Rd
1982-1983	Syracuse	21	10	Lost in NCAA 2nd Rd
1983-1984	Syracuse	23	9	Lost in NCAA Sweet 16
1984-1985	Syracuse	22	9	Lost in NCAA 2nd Rd
1985-1986	Syracuse	26	6	Lost in NCAA 2nd Rd
1986-1987	Syracuse	31	7	Lost in NCAA Championship Game
1987-1988	Syracuse	26	9	Lost in NCAA 2nd Rd
1988-1989	Syracuse	30	8	Lost in NCAA Regional Final
1989-1990	Syracuse	26	7	Lost in NCAA Sweet 16
1990-1991	Syracuse	26	6	Lost in NCAA 1st Rd
1991-1992	Syracuse	22	10	Lost in NCAA 2nd Rd
1992-1993	Syracuse	20	9	No Postseason (NCAA Violations)
1993-1994	Syracuse	23	7	Lost in NCAA Sweet 16
1994-1995	Syracuse	20	10	Lost in NCAA 2nd Rd
1995-1996	Syracuse	29	9	Lost in NCAA Championship Game
1996-1997	Syracuse	19	13	Lost in NIT 1st Rd
1997-1998	Syracuse	26	9	Lost in NCAA Sweet 16
1998-1999	Syracuse	21	12	Lost in NCAA 1st Rd
1999-2000	Syracuse	26	6	Lost in NCAA Sweet 16
2000-2001	Syracuse	25	9	Lost in NCAA 2nd Rd
2001-2002	Syracuse	23	13	Lost in NIT Semi-Finals
'2002-2003'	'Syracuse'	'30'	'5'	'National Champions'
2003-2004	Syracuse	23	8	Lost in NCAA Sweet 16
2004-2005	Syracuse	27	7	Lost in NCAA 1st Rd
2005-2006	Syracuse	23	12	Lost in NCAA 1st Rd
2006-2007	Syracuse	24	11	Lost in NIT Quarter-Finals
'Overall'		750	264	.740

Some of Boeheim’s notable accomplishments current as of March 11, 2007:

★ 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 'three' Final Four appearances
: (1987, 1996, 2003)

★ Led Syracuse University to 'four' Elite Eight appearances
: (1987, 1989, 1996, 2003)

★ Led Syracuse University to '13' Sweet Sixteen appearances
: (1977, 1979, 1980, 1984, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2004)

★ Led Syracuse University to '25' 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)

★ Led Syracuse University to 'seven' Big East regular season championships
: (1980, 1986, 1987, 1990, 1991, 2000, 2003)

★ Led Syracuse University to 'five' Big East tournament championships
: (1981, 1988, 1992, 2005, 2006)

★ Leads all Big East coaches (past and present) in wins. (291)

★ Currently ranks sixth among active coaches in career wins (750)

★ In 31 seasons at Syracuse, has compiled '29' 20-win seasons, good for fourth on the all-time list

★ Became only the 19th coach ever to reach 750 wins (2007)

★ Three-time Big East Coach of the Year (1984, 1991, 2000)

★ USA Basketball's National Coach of the Year (2001)

★ Basketball Hall of Fame (2005) as a coach

Notable players coached by Boeheim

★ Louis Orr (1976-1980)

★ Danny Schayes (1977-1981)

★ Dwayne "Pearl" Washington (1983-1986)

★ Rony Seikaly (1985-1988)

★ Sherman Douglas (1986-1989)

★ Derrick Coleman (1987-1990)

★ Billy Owens (1988-1991)

★ Dave Johnson (1988-1992)

★ Lawrence Moten (1991-1995)

★ John Wallace (1992-1996)

★ Jason Hart (1996-2000)

★ Etan Thomas (1996-2000)

★ Carmelo Anthony (2003)

★ Hakim Warrick (2002-2005)

★ Gerry McNamara (2002-2006)

★ Demetris Nichols (2003-2007)

References

★ (CBS Sportsline) “Syracuse basketball coach Jim Boeheim agrees to contract extension”. The Associated Press. Retrieved from the World Wide Web on December 22, 2005: http://www.sportsline.com/collegebasketball/story/8460325

★ (HoopHall) HoopHall.com: The Official Website of the Basketball Hall of Fame. Retrieved from the World Wide Web on December 22, 2005: http://www.hoophall.com/events/enshrinement05/boeheim.htm

★ (Post-Standard) “Jim Boeheim: Unplugged”. The Post-Standard. Retrieved from the World Wide Web on December 24, 2005: http://www.syracuse.com/sports/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/sports-0/112616888310400.xml&coll=1

★ (SU Athletics) “Jim Boeheim: Men’s Basketball Head Coach”. Retrieved from the World Wide Web on December 22, 2005: http://www.suathletics.com/info/bio.asp?staffid=15

★ (OrangeHoops) "Jim Boeheim Profile". http://www.orangehoops.org/JBoeheim.htm

★ (USA Basketball) "Jim Boeheim Profile". http://www.usabasketball.com/biosmen/jim_boeheim_bio.html

★ 1. 1990 USA Basketball
2. 2006 USA Basketball