“But they worked and made themselves into really, really good basketball players,” Jim Boeheim said. Jim Boeheim said it was never a given his sons would be good enough to play in his program, even Buddy, the more highly recruited of the two. Especially this season playing with my big brother, who helped me get here pushed me to get better every day.” But besides that there are so many good things that I got out of this season. Obviously, we didn’t live up to that this year,” Jimmy Boeheim said.īuddy Boeheim said: “Not the season we wanted. The Boeheim boys grew up around their father’s program, wiping the floors and dreaming of one day following some of the great players they watched at the Carrier Dome. “I wanted to do everything I could to get him one more (game),” Jimmy said about Buddy. Jimmy Boeheim scored a season-high 28 points, going 6 for 9 from 3-point range with seven rebounds while playing all 40 minutes against Duke. He proved a capable ACC player, too, and his final college game might have been the best of his career. Jimmy Boeheim spent his first four years in college at Cornell, becoming one of the best players in the Ivy League before transferring as a graduate student to Syracuse this season. I truly gave it everything I had every day,” Buddy Boeheim said, choking up at the end. And I’d do anything to wear this uniform. “I just want to say thank you to everyone who has supported me on this journey. He became “Buddy Buckets” and his sharp shooting led Syracuse to a surprising Sweet 16 run last season. So he got the maximum for this,” Jim Boeheim said.Ī senior, Buddy Boeheim’s college career exceeded even his father’s expectations. “I’ve seen people tackle people, knock them into the stands, and get a one-game suspension. Still, Jim Boeheim felt Buddy was hit with the maximum penalty: suspended for a postseason game when there was no guarantee he would get to play again. They’re punishing this guy right here because they didn’t do their job,” Jim Boeheim said.įlorida State coach Leonard Hamilton tried to diffuse the situation when asked about the punch after the game, praising Buddy Boeheim’s character. And they’re going to punish those guys (the officials)? No, they’re not punishing those guys. “If it had been handled properly, if they would have looked at the video - they’ve looked at the video every single time this year - the kid was laying on the floor. No foul was called and there was no video review, even though Wilkes went down to the floor for a moment. The officials missed the punch altogether. The Orange were already up by 18 about midway through the first half with Buddy having scored eight points. Jim Boeheim conceded a flagrant 2 could have been called on Buddy that would have resulted in an ejection Wednesday. His father was not quite ready to move on. “I have to live with that, own up to that and I’m not here to argue whether or not I should have played or if I should have got suspended.” “It was just an honest mistake on my part,” Buddy Boeheim said.
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