Syracuse men's basketball coach Jim Boeheim's career will come to an end, ending a 47-year run leading the Orange, according to a statement on the school's website.
Associate head coach Adrian Autry will take over, the school announced Wednesday afternoon.
The Orange's season closed earlier in the day with a 77-74 loss to Wake Forest, capping a 17-15 season.
Boeheim skirted questions about his future, a common topic between him and journalists this season, during a postgame press conference on Wednesday. The 78-year-old would only say it was up to the university and he hoped they could reach an agreement.
The Lyons, N.Y., native stepped onto campus in 1962 and earned a walk-on spot on the basketball team. After graduating, he joined the Syracuse coaching staff in 1969 as a graduate assistant and never left, becoming the head man in 1976.
Boeheim won 1,116 games as coach — 1,015 officially — making him just one of two NCAA Division I men's basketball coaches to reach the 1,000-win plateau.
After making the Final Four in 1987 and 1996, the Orange reached the pinnacle of college basketball in 2003 by winning a national championship on a team led by Carmelo Anthony. Boeheim's teams went on to reach the Final Four in 2013 and 2016.
Two years after the national championship season, Boeheim was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. He would serve as an assistant coach on three gold-meal winning U.S. Olympic teams.
Autry, who played at Syracuse from 1990 to 1994, has been on Boeheim's staff since the 2011-12 season, and was promoted to associate head coach in 2017.
"I have spent much of my time in the game of basketball learning from Jim and am so grateful to him for preparing me to carry on the winning tradition that is Orange Basketball," Autry said in a statement. "It's hard to imagine a world without him on the bench, but together with our coaches, student-athletes and fans, we will build on decades of success as a winning program."
