29 Facts About Jim Boeheim

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Jim Boeheim has served as the President of the National Association of Basketball Coaches, chairman of the USA Basketball committees, and on various board of directors.

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Jim Boeheim served as an assistant coach for the United States men's national basketball team at the Summer Olympics and the FIBA World Championships.

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

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Jim Boeheim intended to retire in 2018 but departure of expected successor Mike Hopkins would keep him at Syracuse until his eventual retirement in 2023.

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Jim Boeheim would become the winningest active coach in Division 1 basketball on April 2,2022, after the retirement of Mike Krzyzewski.

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Jim Boeheim was born in 1944 in a German-American family to parents Janet and James Jim Boeheim Sr.

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Jim Boeheim's family owned a funeral home, started by his great-grandfather in the mid-1800s.

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Jim Boeheim enrolled in Syracuse University as a student in 1962, and graduated with a bachelor's degree in social science.

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Jim Boeheim played as a student at SU for two seasons and in 1970s served as the university's last golf coach.

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In 1969, Jim Boeheim decided to coach basketball and was hired as a graduate assistant at Syracuse under Roy Danforth.

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Apart from his brief stint in the pros, Jim Boeheim has spent his entire adult life at Syracuse, as either a student-athlete, assistant coach or head coach, a rarity in modern-day major collegiate athletics.

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

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Jim Boeheim borrowed a microphone and threatened to forfeit the game if fans continued to throw objects at Ewing.

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Jim 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.

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Jim Boeheim was ejected from Cameron Indoor Stadium on February 22,2014, against Duke after arguing a player control foul call.

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In 2001, during his seventh year as a USA basketball coach, Jim Boeheim helped lead the Young Men's Team to a gold medal at the World Championship in Japan.

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Jim Boeheim 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.

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Jim Boeheim 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.

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Jim Boeheim announced in 2015 that he would retire in March 2018.

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However, following the departure of his long-time assistant coach and expected successor Mike Hopkins in 2017, Jim Boeheim's contract was extended by Syracuse beyond 2017 for an unknown period.

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The New York Times reported that whether Jim Boeheim had retired or been ousted was not immediately clear, but in a press conference a day later, Jim Boeheim announced that he was thrilled to be retired.

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Jim Boeheim stayed at Syracuse, with a new job title of Special assistant to the athletic director.

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Jim Boeheim appeared in the movie Blue Chips, with Nick Nolte and Shaquille O'Neal, playing himself.

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Jim Boeheim appeared in the Spike Lee movie He Got Game, again playing himself.

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Jim Boeheim has appeared in numerous commercials throughout Central New York and had a spot in a nationwide Nike Jordan ad featuring former Syracuse great Carmelo Anthony.

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Jim Boeheim had prostate cancer in 2001 and subsequently became a major fundraiser 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.

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When Jim Boeheim maneuvered around the other car, he struck the man, who had been a passenger in the disabled car.

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Jim Boeheim was speeding, but Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick determined the collision would have been fatal even if Jim Boeheim was going the speed limit at the time.

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Jim Boeheim has received criticism for his aggressive nature toward the press and often got into spats with beat writers.