This season isn't going well for Jim Boeheim and the Syracuse Orange, with Saturday's 25-point loss at home to the No. 7 Duke Blue Devils on a wild day of college basketball just the latest setback. While some have wondered if the 77-year-old coach is ready to call it quits, he's adamantly against it.
The question about it seemed to really strike a nerve after the loss to Duke:
Boy, sounds like Joe Boeheim is really adamant on returning to Syracuse next year @CBSSports @CBSSportsCBB pic.twitter.com/Yb94szkgac
— NunesMagician.com (@NunesMagician) February 27, 2022
Syracuse is 15-14 this season and 9-9 in the ACC, which has them in the middle of the pack in eighth place. The Orange will need to win the ACC Tournament in order to secure a berth in the NCAA Tournament.
Boeheim has been the Syracuse coach since the 1976-77 season. He won a national title in 2003 with Carmelo Anthony playing a starring role and lost in two other title games. He has taken the Orange to the Final Four five times, with the most recent coming in 2016. That most recent Final Four trip came during a season in which Boeheim was suspended for part of it after an NCAA investigation into the program.
Boeheim has racked up 1,098 wins in his Syracuse career, though officially only 997 are on the books because 101 of them were vacated due to the investigation. The program has been investigated twice during his tenure. Boeheim also accidentally killed a man with his car in 2019, but he wasn't charged for the incident.
Retirement rumors have been swirling for some time around Boeheim, and he had previously stated that he would retire in 2018. Instead, he extended his contract beyond that season when his son Buddy committed to Syracuse. Another son, Jimmy, also plays for the Orange after transferring from Cornell.
Perhaps Jim Boeheim changes his mind after this season, but as of right now, it looks like the 77-year-old plans to keep on going at Syracuse.
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