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Jim Boeheim earned the 900th win of his coaching career Monday night with a win over Detroit, and I would love to come up with 900 observations about that. But I won't, because:
A. I don't have 900 observations.
B. Boeheim would absolutely loathe anybody writing 900 things about him, and I don't want to be rude.
C. It would be a more fitting tribute to Boeheim to cut those 900 observations down to five and get the hell out of here.
So here we go.
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