Legendary college basketball head coach Jim Boeheim is stepping down at Syracuse, and associate head coach Adrian Atury is set to take over as the program’s head, per a press release from the university on Wednesday. The announcement comes shortly after the Orange’s ACC Tournament run came to an end with a 77-74 loss to Wake Forest.
Boeheim’s departure ends a 47-year run for the 78-year-old head coach who originally started at the program in 1969 as an assistant before becoming the head coach in 1976.
During his 46 years with the Orange, Boeheim led the program to one NCAA Tournament title in 2003, five NCAA Final Four appearances, 10 Big East regular season championships, five Big East tournament champions, as well as one Eastern College Athletic Conference tournament title in 1977. A member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, Boeheim was a unanimous coach of the year selection in 2010 and was named the Big East Coach of the Year four times.
Overall, during his career in Syracuse, Boehiem collected a career record of 1,015-440, including 432-275 in conference play. His 1,014 wins were the sixth most all-time. With his retirement, the active wins leader in Division I college basketball is West Virginia’s Bob Huggins with 926.
Outside of his run with Syracuse, he was also an assistant coach for the United States men’s national basketball team, helping coach the team to three Olympic Gold Medals, two FIBA World Championships, and one FIBA Americas Championship.
Taking over for Boeheim is associate head coach Adrian Autry, a former player of Boeheim from 1990 to 1994 before playing professionally, mostly in Europe. He began his coaching career in 2006 as an associate head coach in Virginia before coaching multiple AAU programs. In 2008, he became the director of basketball operations at Virginia Tech, where he would also become an assistant coach in 2010. Following the 2010-2011 season, Autry would return to Syracuse as an assistant before being promoted to associate head coach in 2016. Now, he’ll take over as the head coach at the legendary program.
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