DAILY REPORT

Boeheim admits he still hasn’t recovered from losing the 1987 national championship game when Keith Smart of Indiana made a last-second shot to give the Hoosiers a 74-73 victory.

“I’ve never watched the tape of the ’87 game,” Boeheim said. “It hurts too much.”

Boeheim said he handles winning a lot better than losing.

“I only think about the losses,” he said. “People say I’m not happy, which is not really exactly true, when we win. I’m not unhappy when we win. But I’m very unhappy when we lose.”

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Boeheim has a 6-1 record against Pitino, although five of those victories came when Pitino was the coach at Providence. In 1987, Boeheim’s Syracuse team defeated Pitino’s Providence squad, 77-63, in a national semifinal game at New Orleans.

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Pitino on Kentucky’s victory over Syracuse last season:

“It was one of the poorest college basketball games I’ve been around since I’ve been a coach. The fact that we won is not saying much, because it was a matter of who was going to play worse. It was just a bad game by both teams.”