Men’s Basketball Coach Jim Boeheim Talks Basketball, Leadership and Citizenship at Maxwell Event
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on September 21, 2022
In December 2012, the Syracuse University men’s basketball team narrowly defeated the University of Detroit in front of almost 18,000 cheering fans in the Dome. It was the 900th win for head coach Jim Boeheim—but he didn’t feel celebratory.
Just a few days earlier, a 20-year-old gunman walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and took the lives of 26 people, including 20 children.
Boeheim ’66, G’73 reflected on his sentiment in the shooting’s aftermath before a packed auditorium in the Maxwell School of Citizenship . . .
