If you haven’t seen it yet, in the Syracuse-Florida State game in the ACC Tournament Wednesday, Buddy Boeheim clearly slugged FSU’s Wyatt Wilkes in the gut. His dad and coach Jim Boeheim tried to pass it off as “inadvertent,” but realistically, there’s no way that was an accident. The officials didn’t catch it but TV did and it’s really indisputable. Even a lot of Syracuse fans who posted online agreed that it was obviously intentional.
The ACC announced later that Boeheim would be suspended for the Duke game as a result.
For his part, young Boeheim said this: “In the heat of today’s game, after some shoving in the lane, I swung my arm while turning to go back up the court.