There is no greater honor a basketball coach can have than to coach for your country. I believe the whole country will unite behind this effort to win back the gold medal.
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Let the assistant coach come up to me and say, 'Gerry McNamara is overrated.' I'd like to see one of those guys come up to me and say that. He's been double-teamed all year, and the coaches voted him first team all-conference. The head coaches, they don't know (expletive), I guess.Jim Boeheim
From the beginning of the year, we never talked about Anthony being the best freshman in the country. We talked about him being the best player in the country. I think he proved that tonight.
Jim Boeheim
You can't let him get loose. He showed what he can do when it gets open by hitting those two threes in the second half. For the most part, we did a good job of not letting him get set.
Jim Boeheim
You're always hoping big guys get there sooner, but in my opinion they always take longer. In the last half of this season, we're going to need more. That's the bottom line.
Jim Boeheim
I think John's place in Syracuse basketball history is underappreciated, ... We were facing some tough times and he easily could have turned his back on us and committed someplace else, but he stuck with us. During that 1996 tournament, he literally carried us on his shoulders to the title game.
Jim Boeheim
You can't describe what it means. When you start out at five-years-old and all you want to do is play basketball, and when you can't play anymore, you want to coach the game, how do you describe it It's almost impossible.
Jim Boeheim
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