Jim Boeheim Four Quotations

I have a number in mind, I think it should probably be about four to six, somewhere in there. This year, more than ever, has proven that there are teams that might not get in, or might just barely get in, that can win games.

Four guards can work wonderfully well a lot of the time. But sometimes you can take advantage of it. We can't take advantage of it. And when you can't take advantage, they'll take advantage of it.

We've been way behind against quality teams, but we keep fighting back. This team fights hard. They make some mistakes, but they keep fighting. When you lose four in a row and do what we had to do to win tonight, I'm very proud of them. This is a great lesson for all the guys. They can win without Gerry.

He'll be remembered for his heart. He's a unique player. We've been fortunate to have him here for four years.

We're pretty good, and we're getting better. I can't say we're one of the top three or four teams in the country, but we're definitely better than we were last year. Our problem is overly physical teams give us trouble.

Some guys win a game once in a while. I don't think anybody has won four games in a row making the play in the game.

Some guys win one game once in a while, in a year or two. I don't think anybody's ever won four games in a row by making 'the' play of the game. That's pretty special.

We could have lost all four games, all four.

We can't beat them anywhere else. They've killed us four straight games, except for the two here.

We've got some really good teams. It's going to take a major upset for somebody to beat Connecticut. And three or four of our other teams are good enough to make a Final Four, maybe five.

When they caught us, and they caught us three or four times, we kept going. Usually, when that happens, you let it go away a little bit. But these guys (Syracuse player) wouldn't let it go away.

We gave them four wide open shots at the beginning of the game. You can't do that against a quality team like Villanova.

We're not leaving out teams that can only win one game or no games. Now the reality is that we're leaving out teams that can win two and three and four games.

This was a heart-and-soul type of game. I've questioned the toughness of our players a couple times. When you lose four in a row and you do what we had to do to win, that's a tremendous tribute to the toughness of these kids.

Syracuse, New York, is like Hawaii for eight months of the year, ... The other four months, I don't care about the weather because we're playing basketball.

I just don't think you can have four teams not go to your tournament. It's not healthy. I tried to convince the people in the league and our coaches. We had a halfhearted fight about it. This year, it'll be an all-out fight.

Gerry had as good a four games here as anybody I've ever seen. He just wanted to win.

It's certainly a tremendous challenge. I don't know if it'll be any tougher than when we had three Final Four teams and two teams get to the Sweet Sixteen. It can't be much tougher than that, but it'll be difficult.

It was a great, great tournament. I'm really glad for Gerry. He started his career a little bit, probably a little bit too good, and where are you going to go after that? But he's come back and had four great years for us. He's got unbelievable heart; he really does.

These four games, they're probably the best of anything I've ever been around.

For Josh Wright, who hadn't played much, to do what he did was outstanding. We needed all four of those and it took a lot of guts for him to get all four.

This team showed more heart and guts than any team I've ever coached. And Gerry had as good a four days as anyone I've ever seen.

We just played three teams I consider to be Top 10 teams and, right now, we're not a Top 10 team. It's sad we have to play great teams back-to-back ... that's not the right way. Nobody else has to do that, play back-to-back Saturday and Monday games two weeks in a row with three of four on the road. That's too much to ask.

I believe, if I?m not mistaken, Bill Gates went to college for one year. I don?t think it hurt him, did it? I believe that every kid that goes to college for one or two or three or four years gains tremendously from it.

If Gerry played at Notre Dame he'd probably average 25 a game for four years because that's what he gets when he comes here.