College basketball is about to see its next father-son tandem form in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Jim Boeheim’s son, Buddy, has committed to Syracuse
Boeheim says he will retire after chasing a national championship with his son
Photo Cred: ESPN/Courtesy of the Boeheim family.
Sharpshooter Buddy Boeheim committed to Syracuse on Friday, where he’ll play for his father, highly decorated head coach Jim Boeheim.
Buddy averaged 26.3 points and 9.8 rebounds at Jamesville-DeWitt High School in Syracuse last season, earning All-CNY Player of the Year honors along the way. A 6’5 wing, and growing, he averaged 12.7 points and shot 52 percent from three at Peach Jam, an elite summer event for prep ball players. After one game in Augusta, Ga., according to ESPN’s Jeff Goodman, UNC head coach Roy Williams told Jim Boeheim, “You need to take your son. He’s good enough.”
This isn’t the first father-son duo in recent memory.
You’ll remember Doug McDermott scorched nets at Creighton under his father, Greg, averaging 26.7 points on 44.9 percent three-point shooting his senior year to win five different Player of the Year awards. R.J Hunter played under his father, Ron, at Georgia State and ended up a first-round draft pick. Ray McCallum Jr. played for Ray Sr. in Detroit before reaching the NBA. And the legendary Pistol Pete Maravich played for his father, Press Maravich, at LSU before turning in a Hall of Fame career.
Jim and Buddy Boeheim aren’t expected to be quite as potent a combo as Press and Pete, or even Greg and Doug McDermott. But if Jim is going to end his career coaching his son, there’s only one way to do it.
“We’re going to try and win it all together and end his career with a national championship,” said Buddy, via ESPN.
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