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Jim Boeheim tried and failed to walk back his disrespectful comments about 3 other ACC teams

What a WEAK statement with no apology!

Jim Boeheim continues to dig his hole deeper and deeper.

A recent story with ESPN saw the Syracuse Men’s Basketball head coach talking about his future and, perhaps more notably, the state of college basketball on the whole. As concepts like NIL (Name, Image, and Likeness) deals grow in popularity in college sports, the 78-year Boeheim showed he wasn’t a fan of their use.

The coach took it a step way too far in explicitly saying that programs like Pittsburgh, Wake Forest, and Miami all “bought” their teams, thanks in part to NIL deals. Woof, yeah, it’s not a great look:

“This is an awful place we’re in in college basketball,” Boeheim said. “Pittsburgh bought a team. OK, fine. My [big donor] talks about it, but he doesn’t give anyone any money. Nothing. Not one guy. Our guys make like $20,000. Wake Forest bought a team. Miami bought a team. … It’s like, ‘Really, this is where we are?’ That’s really where we are, and it’s only going to get worse.”

Does Boeheim have any citations to back up his disrespectful comments, or is he just upset that recruiting is now potentially more challenging?

This was how Wake Forest head coach Steve Forbes responded to Boeheim’s out-of-line comments:

In the wake of Boeheim drawing heaps of criticism for his thoughts, the coach would issue a statement on Monday morning. It was both not an apology and Boeheim trying (emphasis: trying) to meekly walk back what he said:

Imply? There was no implication there! Boeheim’s were, again, explicit! What is he trying to pull here? The cat’s already out of the bag.

This is a situation where Boeheim might only find himself coming under more fire as time goes on. For example, ACC coaches do a media call every Monday. In other words, stay tuned.

Syracuse youngsters lead comeback win over Notre Dame veterans

Those young whippersnappers in Central New York done beat those old guys.

Once again, Notre Dame’s mantra of getting and staying old didn’t pay off. In fact, it might have served as a detriment this time. The Irish had Syracuse on the ropes, but Jim Boeheim switched things up, and it changed the game’s momentum. Now, the Irish are left to wonder what could have been after a 78-73 loss.

Thanks largely to a season-high 15 3-pointers, the Irish (9-9, 1-6) led by as much as 12 in the second half. It was then that the Orange (12-6, 5-2) went to a full-court press, and that took the Irish out of their rhythm. In a stretch paced by a four-freshman lineup, the Orange made one timely shot after another while the Irish saw their hot shooting go cold and weren’t able to shake off the Orange’s defense. That big lead shrank until it finally disappeared.

[autotag]Marcus Hammond[/autotag] answered freshman Chris Bell’s go-ahead 3 with one of his own, but that was the last good thing to happen to the Irish. Judah Mintz tied the game at 71 on the Orange’s next possession, which was followed by the last media timeout. When action resumed, the Irish couldn’t inbound the ball cleanly, and the Orange made enough free throws from there to seal the victory. The Irish had opportunities to counter those free throws, but they couldn’t recapture their earlier good shooting from beyond the arc.

Bell set a career-high with 17 points, including 5-of-8 shooting from 3-point range. Maliq Brown, another freshman, came off the bench and also hit a career scoring high with 15 points on 7-of-8 shooting. Mintz scored 14, including eight free throws, and dished out a game-high eight assists. Jesse Edwards had a typical game of 13 points, 15 rebounds and four blocks.

Hammond was the game’s leading scorer with 18 points. [autotag]Dane Goodwin[/autotag] was well-rounded with 15 points, six assists and two steals. [autotag]Nate Laszewski[/autotag] had a double-double of 14 points and 10 rebounds, and [autotag]Trey Wertz[/autotag]’s line included 12 points, seven boards and four dimes.

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Notre Dame’s lack of post presence exploited in loss to Georgia

That 6-1 start is feeling more like a distant memory.

After Notre Dame lost to Syracuse in its ACC opener, Orange coach Jim Boeheim said that the Irish don’t really have a post presence. While we don’t know if Georgia coach Mike White read or heard that quote from the Hall of Famer, he opted to exploit that deficiency in the Irish’s makeup when his team played them during Holiday Hoopsgiving in Atlanta. The plan worked, and a 77-62 loss means the Irish have dropped three of four so far in December.

The Irish (7-4) saw the Bulldogs (8-3) start a three-guard lineup, but it was the two starters down low that did the most damage. Center Braelen Bridges and forward Matthew-Alexander Moncriffe combined to go a perfect 15 of 15 from the field and score 18 and 15 points respectively. That undoubtedly contributed to the Bulldogs’ 40-22 advantage in points in the paint. If that wasn’t enough, the Bulldogs won the rebounding battle, 35-25.

The post wasn’t the Irish’s only kryptonite in this game. [autotag]Mike Brey[/autotag]’s decision to have only seven players in his rotation once again became a disadvantage. Five of the six Bulldogs who came off the bench played at least 10 minutes, and they made of the most of their time on the floor. Jabri Abdur-Rahim had 12 points to go with a game-high 11 rebounds, and the Bulldogs’ reserves outscored the Irish’s, 27-4.

[autotag]Nate Laszewski[/autotag] led all scorers with 20 points, including four 3-pointers. [autotag]Cormac Ryan[/autotag] scored 15, and [autotag]JJ Starling[/autotag] added 14.

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Mike Brey meets with media ahead of Notre Dame’s 2022-23 season

Here’s what we heard when we traveled to the Irish’s local media day.

[autotag]Mike Brey[/autotag] is coming off his best season coaching Notre Dame over the past few years. Irish fans will be anxious to see how his team will be able to build off last season’s success. Until they learn how or if that happens, words from the longtime coach will suffice. And he has plenty to say about it.

Fighting Irish Wire accepted an invitation to attend a media day for local media at Purcell Pavilion and was with the assembled group when Brey spoke. He addressed everything from the outlook of this year’s team to the ACC’s reputation to players old and new. This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone by now, but he knows his team very well and is as much of an open book as you can imagine for a college basketball coach.

Here is some of what Brey had to say to the local media:

Jim Boeheim: ‘You can say what you want about the Big Ten. They sucked in the tournament’

Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim takes a shot at the Big Ten.

Syracuse basketball head coach Jim Boeheim didn’t hold back on Friday, taking a shot at the Big Ten and the conference’s underwhelming show in last season’s NCAA Tournament.

Last season, the Big Ten didn’t have a men’s team in the Final Four, with just one team making the Elite Eight and two advancing to the Sweet 16. It was a dismal showing from a conference that many throughout the regular season called the best in college basketball.

A Big Ten team hasn’t won the NCAA Tournament since William Henry Harrison was president. The last Big Ten team to win the NCAA Tournament was Michigan State in 2000 (although Maryland, now a Big Ten member, won in 2002 as a member of….the ACC):

“At the end of the day, you play for the [NCAA] tournament,” Boeheim said Friday via ESPN. “You can say what you want about the Big Ten. They sucked in the tournament. To me, that’s what they did. All of their wins were in their league. If you can’t play in the [NCAA] tournament, then you’re not good.”

The last two NCAA Tournament champions on the men’s side have come from the Big 12 with Kansas winning the most recent tournament.

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Syracuse did not qualify for the NCAA Tournament last season. The Orange are expected to return to the postseason this year.

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Syracuse’s Jim Boeheim uses UNC as example of why NIL is good

Syracuse basketball head coach Jim Boeheim used UNC as an example for the NIL working in college basketball.

The topic of NIL is a hot conversation among college athletics right now with most recently Alabama’s Nick Saban, Texas A&M’s Jimbo Fisher and Jackson State’s Deion Sanders exchanging words in the media.

But one coach that thinks athletes being able to profit off name, image and likeness is Syracuse’s Jim Boeheim and he is using North Carolina as a prime example.

Boeheim was asked about the NIL at the NBA Draft Combine last week in Chicago by Adam Zagoria, and he offered up this interesting answer:

“By the NIL, guys at Carolina, guys at Miami, guys at these schools are coming back because they’re making more money than they make in the G league so it wasn’t meant to do that but college teams this year, several, are going to be a lot stronger than they would have been because of NIL,” Boeheim, 77, told me at the NBA Draft Combine last week in Chicago.

He took a different route than Saban did and praised ACC teams UNC and Miami with the NIL.

UNC is returning four of their five starters from a team that reached the title game last year and are expected to be the favorites to win it all this season in a few months. A big reason why some of those players returned was to reap the benefits of the NIL and make some money. Caleb Love just recently signed a deal with an agency and both R.J. Davis and Armando Bacot have picked up partnerships.

In a college world where NIL is the big topic, it’s nice to see a coach like Boeheim complement other teams.

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With one Boeheim out, another went off in a game against Duke that had so many layers

“I was playing for this kid today.”

Jim Boeheim has been the coach of Syracuse since 1976. And since 1976, the Orange have never had a losing season. That’s 45 years without a losing record.

However, that streak will likely come to an end after Syracuse’s loss to Duke in the ACC Tournament quarterfinals on Thursday. The loss dropped the Orange to 16-17 overall, and they aren’t projected to make the NCAA Tournament or NIT. Their season is probably over.

That doesn’t mean Syracuse went down without a fight. Playing the tournament’s top seed, and without Jim’s son and leading scorer Buddy Boeheim, Syracuse covered a 14.5-point spread and gave Duke a serious scare. Buddy got himself suspended for the game by punching an opponent on Wednesday, but his older brother Jimmy Boeheim picked up the slack and played the game of his life. In a performance more reminiscent of Buddy, who leads the ACC in scoring, Jimmy scored a season-high 28 points while making six-of-nine three-pointers.

In the end, he wasn’t able to save his dad’s incredible streak in an 88-79 loss, but that was just one layer of a game that was much more than the sum of its parts.

ACC Tournament: Watch Syracuse player punch opponent

You can go ahead and stop saying “appears to” already. He certainly did it…

Grayson Allen is a dirty basketball player and has been for quite some time.  He loves to trip opponents and take them out, all in the spirit of “competition” or so they say.

Grayson Allen has done some appalling things on a basketball court but even he had to have been shaking his head at what Syracuse’s leading scorer Buddy Boeheim did in the Orange’s blowout victory over Florida State on Wednesday.

Boeheim was not called for a foul after he swung his hand into Florida State’s Wyatt Wilkes midsection as he turned to run back to the defensive end, following a made jump shot by Syracuse.  No foul was called on the play.

See the video below.

I’ve read a good amount of articles and seen plenty of tweets about this across the internet.  To anyone out there who might be writing about this please do everyone a favor and stop saying Boeheim “appears to punch” an opponent.

He does it, it doesn’t just look like he does it, he flat out does it.  Did Woody Hayes “appear to punch” the Clemson player when the legendary Ohio State coach was ultimately fired?  You’re safe saying Hayes punched that player and you’re safe saying Boeheim did the same.

Boeheim, a senior and the son of legendary Syracuse head coach Jim, has played 120 games for the Orange in his four seasons.  Assuming Syracuse has any sense about themselves they’ll do the right thing and not have him in uniform again for this ridiculousness.

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Notre Dame beats Boeheims, Syracuse for 20th win

The Irish had to earn this one.

Don’t let that 79-69 final score fool you. Notre Dame really had to work against Syracuse to earn its 20th victory of the season. In the end, it doesn’t really matter how the Irish bested the legendary Jim Boeheim and his crew. Of course, Mike Brey probably will remind his team that a better effort will be needed every game from now until at least the end of the ACC Tournament.

The Irish (20-8, 13-4) and Orange (15-13, 9-8) had to endure 15 lead changes and 12 ties, and the game remained stressful even though the Irish never trailed again after the first few minutes of the second half. Every time the Irish went on a run, the Orange had an answer, and that was thanks in no small part to Jimmy (27 points) and Buddy Boeheim (20 points).

The Irish were held without a field goal over the final 2:57, so who knows what would have happened if Blake Wesley and Paul Atkinson Jr. hadn’t made nine of 10 free throws in that time? Their lead was only three with a minute and a half left, so they needed every one of those points to keep the pressure off.

Atkinson had a double-double before the first half was even over, and he finished the game with a stat line that was both balanced and productive:  20 points (half of which coming on free throws), 17 rebounds. Nate Laszewski was recovered enough from his stomach ailment to come off the bench and score 15 of his 17 points on five 3-pointers.

Cormac Ryan shot 6 of 9 for 16 points, and Wesley overcome 3-of-13 shooting from the field to score 13. Prentiss Hubb had a season-high 10 assists and a career-high eight rebounds.

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Opinion: Why is Jim Boeheim so cranky all of the time?

Lighten up, man.

I don’t spend much time thinking about Jim Boeheim. Not because I don’t actually cover college basketball but because, as a former resident of the state of Indiana, I recognize zone defense for the abomination that it is and would never spend mental energy on someone who relies upon it.

Nevertheless, I can’t help but keep seeing that Boeheim, the 76-year-old coach at Syracuse, is incredibly cranky seemingly all of the time now.

After the 11th-seeded Orange lost 62-46 to the No. 2 seed Houston Cougars in the men’s NCAA Tournament on Saturday, Boeheim took an innocuous question and used it to punch down on a student reporter.

Asking questions fans care about and doing good journalism is, in fact, “normal” for “Syracuse people,” by which I think he means “journalists.” They’re very well trained!

Boeheim also recently said that “Not one sentence on the internet matters. Not one.”

Earlier this year, Boeheim got angry about a question from The Athletic’s Matthew Gutierrez and pulled the old “Never Played The Game” Card and then, like a bully who isn’t even trying to be creative, made fun of his height:

This is truly bizarre behavior from a man who has been in a leadership position at a great university since 1977. He’s supposed to have gained perspective and wisdom over the last four decades. But instead he just seems angry and aggrieved — all while making over $2 million a year and having the chance to coach his son, Buddy.

Constantly being questioned by reporters is not fun, I’ll grant that. It’s also not fun asking questions and rarely getting clear answers. The relationship is strained by definition. But plenty of coaches manage to find a way to get through it without being so condescending.

Boeheim also dropped this take during his post-game press conference Saturday:

My son’s at Cornell and he’s been miserable for six months, as have all the other athletes in the Ivy League because they didn’t even get a chance to play.

And some day we’re going to look back and say why didn’t we play? Why would we ever even have thought about not playing? These kids, if they get sick, they’re better, they’re back in a few days or they don’t get sick. And it would have been a monumental mistake to not play basketball.

A lot of people have been miserable for a *year* because they’ve been unable to do a lot of things because the world has been in the grips of an actual pandemic that has killed nearly 2.8 million people.

Sports were stopped not just to protect the young players but also anyone else involved with them. The virus jumps from body to body. It was a good move to limit the nearness of bodies. This isn’t hard.

Some leagues didn’t re-start as early as others because they decided to be more cautious — and, oh by the way, they also don’t have humungous TV deals to uphold.

Whether we’ll look back with regret at not playing more sports through a pandemic is something I’ll let the historians sort out, but we’re already admitting that a better response could have saved hundreds of thousands of lives.

But I guess if a guy can’t even learn to run a real defense or deal with difficult questions without resorting to school-yard taunts, it’s a little ridiculous to expect him to have nuanced views on anything else.

This paragraph has no meaning because it’s on the internet but: Jim, there’s still time to just relax, man. You’ve been able to get rich coaching a game. You work with young, talented people. Those questions you get so offended by are just normal; coaches get second-guessed. That’s sports! Maybe just try to enjoy it.

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