Jim Boeheim has spent 46 seasons as the head coach at Syracuse, spanning all or part of six different decades, and we ranked every single one of the teams he has coached.
To try to make the rankings as objective as possible and to avoid biases of recency or the eventual NBA careers of Syracuse basketball alums, I created a point system to evaluate teams across the six decades of Boeheim’s head coaching tenure.
The maximum number of points was 475 — 100 points for non-conference play, 100 points for the conference regular season, 100 points for a team’s Simple Rating System (SRS) rating that takes into account point differential and strength of schedule, 25 points for a team’s conference tournament finish, 50 points for a team’s NCAA tournament seed, and 100 points for a team’s NCAA tournament finish. Each Syracuse team’s non-conference and conference schedule were evaluated based on winning percentage in order to adjust for the different number of games played in different…