The career of the longest-tenured men's college basketball coach in the country ended Wednesday, with Syracuse announcing Jim Boeheim's Hall of Fame career in Central New York came to a close after 47 seasons as the program's head coach.
The 78-year-old Boeheim had been with the Orange in three different roles for 57 of the past 60 years. He enrolled at Syracuse in 1962 and was part of the basketball team all four years, beginning as a freshman walk-on and eventually starting all 28 games as a senior, helping lead the Orange to the NCAA tournament.