Just two weeks after securing the head coaching job for the Syracuse Orange men’s basketball program in 1975, coach Jim Boeheim ended up in Cincinnati, Ohio for one of the first recruitment trips of his career. There, he would meet who he called the greatest of all the people and players he’s met.
“The guy had told me he was 6-8... and he weighed 160 pounds, maybe,” Boeheim said at the postgame press conference after Saturday’s win versus Cornell. “He got knocked down about six times in five minutes while I’m watching him.