After guiding the Syracuse Orange men’s basketball team to the Sweet 16 a season ago, Buddy Boeheim made waves and earned the moniker ‘Buddy Buckets’ as he and Jim Boeheim became a national story as a father-son duo.
In the process, the younger Boeheim generated NBA interest, somewhat to his surprise. Jumping to the league after his junior year wasn’t something he had previously considered. But after Syracuse’s loss to Houston in the Sweet 16, he shot down any speculation of leaving his father’s program early.
“I’ll be back,” He said definitively. “I’ve got a lot of work to do.