Boeheim and Beilein: Game within a game

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — They’re sort of polar opposites in a way — one a coaching nomad for over three decades, the other parked pretty much in the same place for most of the last half century.

And yet the careers of Michigan’s John Beilein and longtime Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim are so intertwined that Saturday’s national semifinal between Beilein’s Wolverines (30-7) and Boeheim’s Orange (30-9) likely will be bittersweet, no matter the outcome.

After all, the two upstate New Yorkers have ties that bind.

Born and raised in western New York, Beilein began his coaching career in h...