But they worked and made themselves into really, really good basketball players, they were called Division II and III players by the social media people in Syracuse. I think we’ve dispelled that part. So I ’m really proud of how they got here. Not that they’re good but how they got here.

Jim Boeheim

If you're analytical, you have to be blunt. That's by definition. You can't analyze something and not be blunt about it. What would you rather hear if not the truth?

Jim Boeheim

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I'm not Derek Jeter, there will be no farewell tour.

Jim Boeheim

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I came here...in 1962. I'm not going anywhere.

Jim Boeheim

I'm not Joe Paterno. Somebody didn't come and tell me Bernie Fine did something and I'm hiding it. I know nothing. If I saw some reason not to support Bernie, I would not support him. If somebody showed me a reason, proved that reason, I would not support him. But until then, I'll support him until the day I die.

Jim Boeheim

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The committee chose to ignore the efforts which I have undertaken over the past 37 years to promote an atmosphere of compliance within the men's basketball program, instead, they chose to focus on the rogue and secretive actions of a former employee of the local YMCA and my former director of basketball operations in order to impose an unprecedented series of penalties upon the university and the men's basketball program.

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You give hundreds, probably thousands of speeches in this business, but you only get one chance to make an acceptance speech at the Hall of Fame. That's pressure.

Jim Boeheim

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Syracuse, New York, is like Hawaii for eight months of the year. The other four months, I don't care about the weather because we're playing basketball.

Jim Boeheim

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I first came to the Garden when I was a sophomore in college. The old, old Garden.

Jim Boeheim

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You don't play extra guys just to play them. You play 'em because they can help you in some way.

Jim Boeheim

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It's not harder to make a couple extra substitutions. That's not hard. You get different things when you make changes, you gain things and you lose things. But overall, if you gain things, that's why you play extra guys.

Jim Boeheim

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I grew up in the Big East Conference for 30 years. We were a conference that was nothing. We were a bunch of schools thrown together and within five years we were one of the top two basketball conferences in the country.

Jim Boeheim

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All the way through my high school and college there was never a doubt in anybody's mind the ACC was the best conference.

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The facts are, when we played here, we were treated better in Greensboro than any other tournament venue.

Jim Boeheim

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You've got to understand, every kid in college basketball, if you ask them where they want to play a game, in the NBA or college, they will tell you Madison Square Garden, a huge percentage.

Jim Boeheim

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I don't love playing zone all the time, because it does have an effect on your offense.

Jim Boeheim

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Against our zone, even really good offensive teams take longer than usual to get into their patterns, maybe 30 seconds. So we're locked into playing defense for that long... it's hard to run on offense after you've been hunkering down on D for that long.

Jim Boeheim

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It's one thing to play through injuries, quite another to play well through injuries.

Jim Boeheim

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Unfortunately, in our business, it's all about the tournament when you're a good team.

Jim Boeheim

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If I could hire a coach in this country and I could get Tony Bennett, there would be nobody in second place. Nobody.

Jim Boeheim

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I loved Jud Heathcote.

Jim Boeheim

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