Jim Boeheim

30 rescuers ready in West Virginia mine search
By Steven Neikam Jr
April 7, 2010 - 4:20pm
Plus, more job cuts for NY schools, and Jim Boeheim named coach of the year.

An additional hole will be drilled into the West Virginia mine where four miners are believed to be, in an effort ventilate the mine and allow up to 30 rescuers to access the mine, according to CNN. Officials initially said there would be four holes drilled, but they hope the fifth will help clear the air more quickly. An explosion at the Upper Big Branch South Mine killed 25 miners on Monday, making it the deadliest U.S. mining disaster in 25 years.

Orange, Johnson ready to serve Butler
By Kyle C. Leach
March 23, 2010 - 4:44pm
Syracuse (30-4) travels to Salt Lake City for its Sweet Sixteen matchup with Butler (30-4). Tip-off is 7:07 p.m. EST.

Syracuse starting forward Rick Jackson getting into foul trouble was the best thing to happen to Syracuse on Sunday afternoon.

With two hands tied behind their backs (the team's other starting forward Arinze Onuaku was inactive with a leg injury), the Orange took a bat to Gonzaga’s pumpkin chariot, and put up 87 points on the Cinderella-turned-NCAA-regular.

"This is as well as we've played all year," said Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim. "It was a tremendous performance."

Orange open NCAA tourney by vanquishing Vermont
By Kyle C. Leach
March 20, 2010 - 11:48am
Top-seeded Syracuse shook off naysayers and upset watchers, dominating No. 16 seed Catamounts, 79-56.

 

The NCAA men’s basketball tournament is a new start for 65 teams. Teams get a coveted bid, push the re-set button, and go about making adjustments.

The top seeds usually need little adjustment, but Syracuse’s first No. 1 seed in 30 years came with strings attached. After winning 28 games and the Big East regular season title, Orange head coach Jim Boeheim had a to-do list that include: insert a new rotation, weather the team’s longest layoff in four months, and exorcise the Vermont demons from 2005.

Going Home Early
By Eric Meyers
March 11, 2010 - 5:38pm
Turnovers, defensive woes and a worrying injury troubled the one-seeded Syracuse Orange as they fell to eighth seed Georgetown in the Big East tournament quarterfinals, 91-84.

Two kinds of fans filled Madison Square Garden this afternoon.  Half wore Orange, and stood in stunned silence.  The other half wore just about anything else, and cheered as loud as they could for the top seed to fall.  They got their wish.

Six minutes into the second half, Syracuse watched their lead dwindle from a game high nine points, to one point in under two minutes.  And with a 2-point field goal by Vee Sanford, Georgetown took the lead and never lost it.

Wes Johnson is Big East player of the year, Jim Boeheim is coach of the year
By Erika Wachter
March 9, 2010 - 8:51pm
Plus, College students collect limbs for Haiti and Donovan McNabb and T.O team up again.

Syracuse University Basketball is racking up the Big East awards.

Wes Johnson was named 2009-2010 Big East Player of the Year and Jim Boeheim was selected as 2009-2010 Coach of the Year. The awards were announced at a press conference today at Madison Square Garden, the host site for the Big East Tournament.

Johnson, a junior transfer from Iowa, is the first transfer student to earn Big East Player of the Year honors. He is the fourth Syracuse player to earn the honor.

Gunning for the Big East title
By Kyle C. Leach
March 9, 2010 - 8:11pm
The 31st Big East men's basketball tournament will captivate fans for five days and 15 games before the champion is crowned Saturday night.

Syracuse is the top seed and Louisville is the defending champion; and that’s all we know for certain at this point.

A night of firsts and finales
By Evan Williams
March 3, 2010 - 12:06am
Seniors Arinze Onuaku and Andy Rautins play final game in Carrier Dome, first as nation’s No. 1 team.

Fifth-year seniors Arinze Onuaku and Andy Rautins stepped onto the Carrier Dome floor for the last time of their college careers, yet the night was as much about firsts as finales.


Onuaku and Rautins strutted onto Jim Boeheim Court for the first time as members of the number one team in the country. And it was their first time walking off as outright Big East regular season champions.           

Harry holds court
By Andrew Meola
March 1, 2010 - 3:47pm
After working for over six decades as a Syracuse Athletics usher, one of SU's most loyal fans reflects on life, cancer and Orange Pride.

Harry Tzivanii suffered an injury during World War II that left him with chronic back pain. Twenty years ago, the government told him he could no longer take the medication they were providing to help with the pain. And to top it all off, he found out that he had cancer. 

And not just one type. Five. 

That man has gone to work for 62 years with all of those problems. That man is a 20-year-old usher who has worked for Syracuse University athletics for more than six decades. 

Okay, he’s actually 85, though all evidence points to the contrary. 

'Beat Nova' comes true
By Kyle C. Leach
February 28, 2010 - 10:30pm
Syracuse clinches a share of the Big East regular season title with a 95-77 thrashing of Villanova in front of a NCAA record crowd at the Carrier Dome.

On a day when the unexpected happened, the Syracuse basketball team performed as expected. The No. 1 and No. 2 teams in college basketball, Kansas and Kentucky, lost earlier in the day.  Even the U.S. four-man bobsled team slid into the upset parade, ending a 60-year drought by winning a gold medal  in Vancouver.

Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim saw his team fall behind 23-14 to the Villanova Wildcats (23-5, 12-4 Big East), and decide to roll his dice, looking to hit the lucky seven. His seven ‘starters,’ that is.

The Birth of "Big Boeheim"
By Jared Diamond
February 24, 2010 - 8:07pm
When Pat Manley made a giant cutout of Syracuse Basketball coach Jim Boeheim's head, he wasn't planning to start a phenomenon.

All his life, Pat Manley heard the criticisms of the Syracuse student section at the Carrier Dome. It was always too quiet, too boring. That it lacked the creativity of other, better student sections around the Big East. 

It is a perception Manley, a current SU graduate student majoring in political science, set out to change. So when the opportunity arose to do something about it, he made sure to take advantage.