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Boeheim Receives UPS NABC Coach Of The Year Honors
4/4/2010 8:52:58 PM | Men's Basketball
INDIANAPOLIS, IND. – Syracuse University head coach Jim Boeheim has been named the 2010 National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Division I Coach of the Year. Boeheim received his award Sunday night at the annual AT&T Guardians of the Game Awards Show at the Murat Centre in Indianapolis.
It was a big night for Boeheim, who also received the NABC Metropolitan Award for long and outstanding service to college basketball as well as an NABC Honor Award for his 800th career win this season. Boeheim, who just completed his 34th season at Syracuse, has led the Orange to 20 or more wins in 32 of those seasons. Syracuse was picked sixth in the BIG EAST preseason poll with just one player on the preseason BIG EAST teams as an honorable mention selection. The Orange finished the season with a 30-5 record, earned the top-seed in the West region for the NCAA championship tournament, and reached the Sweet 16.
Syracuse was the number-one team in both national polls on March 1st. Syracuse captured the BIG EAST Conference regular-season championship and Boeheim was named the league's Coach of the Year.
He has been honored by the Associated Press and the United States Basketball Writers Association as Coach of the Year as well. Media outlets including Sporting News and Yahoo!Sports have also bestowed the honor upon him.
Boeheim is second among active Division I coaches in wins with 829. He is sixth all-time in the same category. Each of his 34 years as a head coach have been spent at Syracuse, his alma mater.
About the National Association of Basketball Coaches
Located in Kansas City, Missouri, the NABC was founded in 1927 by Forrest “Phog” Allen, the legendary basketball coach at the University of Kansas. Allen, a student of James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, organized coaches into this collective group to serve as Guardians of the Game. The NABC currently claims nearly 5,000 members consisting primarily of university and college men's basketball coaches. All members of the NABC are expected to uphold the core values of being a Guardian of the Game by bringing attention to the positive aspects of the sport of basketball and the role coaches play in the academic and athletic lives of today's student-athletes. The four core values of being a Guardian of the Game are advocacy, leadership, service and education. Additional information about the NABC, its programs and membership, can be found at www.nabc.com.
