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Syracuse basketball coach Jim Boeheim hints at retirement

Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim hinted that Wednesday's loss to Wake Forest in the ACC tournament could have been his last game after 47 seasons as coach of the Orange.

"I gave my retirement speech last week, and nobody picked up on it," Boeheim said after the 77-74 loss on a 3-pointer by the Demon Deacons' Daivien Williamson with 0.5 seconds remaining.

When pressed on whether it was, indeed, his final game with Syracuse, Boeheim wouldn't say it directly.

"This is up to the university," he said. "... I just said it.