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[QUOTE="kingtidge, post: 2970221, member: 994"]
I think that loss was planned so people would shut up about it.

We have a HOF coach that is more than well qualified to teach M2M well if he wanted to.

He did 2+ decades with M2M and started going predominantly zone in 1996.

Of course, the exhibition v. LeMoyne on 11/3/2009 stuck a fork in any M2M sets we had been working with

By 2010, JAB had abandoned all M2M sets entirely and we went exclusively zone.

After the 2009 loss to Lemoyne:

COACH BOEHEIM: Everyone keeps complaining about the zone so we tried man," Boeheim said after the stunning loss to a Division II team. "Everyone is smarter than the coach. We're done trying man.

From and ASAP Sports Interview, 4/1/2013:

Q.  When did you start doing this zone exclusively?  In the '96 run, were you doing all 2‑3 at that point? Also, just wondering if the way your team is playing it now, where does it compare with your best teams in terms of playing the zone?

COACH BOEHEIM:  Well, until '96 we played some man every year.  In the exhibition games, non‑conference games, even the conference games we played some man.  We continued doing that probably up to '03.  '03 we pretty much played all zone, and after '03 we still played some man, but it really probably hasn't been until '10, 2010, when we lost the exhibition game to Le Moyne, we just said, We're going to spend more time on our zone. We still spend some time man‑to‑man, but mostly it's zone for the last two, three years, pretty much exclusively zone in all of our games.
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