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Syracuse basketball coach Jim Boeheim on Mike Hopkins: 'He's doing a great job'

(Associated Press)

Syracuse, N.Y. — Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim will watch the next eight Syracuse basketball games just like the rest of us.

What he won't be doing, however, is judging how interim coach Mike Hopkins goes about his business during Boeheim's absence.

"He's a tremendous coach," Boeheim told ESPN Radio 97.7 FM and Syracuse.com's Brent Axe during a taping of On The Block on Tuesday. "He did a great job. Obviously, I'm not even going to get into that stuff and you ought to know better. You really ought to know better than that.