Jim Boeheim’s association with Syracuse basketball started in 1961 and ended, at least officially, on March 8, 2023, which is pretty incredible when you think about it.
He came to Syracuse as a walk-on and, other than a few years of wandering around East Coast minor leagues, has been at Syracuse ever since.
The university issued a statement, saying this:
“Nearly 60 years ago, Jim Boeheim ’66, G’73 first arrived on the Syracuse University campus as an undergraduate student and walk-on with the men’s basketball team. Little did he know that six decades later, he’d be one of college basketball’s winningest head coaches, a national champion, a Hall of Famer and one of the most prominent alumni in Syracuse University history.