It’s been a changing of the guard in men’s college basketball. Mike Krzyzewski, Roy Williams, Jay Wright and now Jim Boeheim are all gone after incredible runs at their respective universities.
So who’s the last of the old school coaches left?
Per Action Network’s Darren Rovell, “If Jim Boeheim is done, Michigan State’s Tom Izzo is now the longest tenured active Division I college basketball coach. He was hired on March 18, 1995.”
If Jim Boeheim is done, Michigan State’s Tom Izzo is now the longest tenured active Division I college basketball coach. He was hired on March 18, 1995.
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) March 8, 2023
Boeheim walked away from the game on Wednesday after 47 years of service to Syracuse University.
The longtime Orange coach is No. 2 all-time in wins behind Coach K, winning well over 1,000 games during the course of his near half-century career.
A national champion and conference Coach of the Year multiple times over, few resumes boast the type of consistent success that Jim Boeheim held for the majority of his tenure in Upstate New York; only going consecutive years without making the NCAA tournament twice.