Surrounded by reporters at a small round table, Jim Boeheim folded his arms and pronounced himself done talking about “that situation,” the one that he had already weighed in on quite contentiously over the weekend.

At a news conference to promote his Syracuse team’s N.I.T. Season Tip-Off semifinal against Virginia Tech on Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden, Boeheim did take a moment to concede, “I really don’t have any facts.”

None, apparently, to assist the Syracuse police in their eventual decision on whether to pursue sexual abuse accusations against Boeheim’s longtime associate head coach, Bernie Fine, but what the heck: why let the lack of facts get in the way of a good counteroffensive?

Did Boeheim have the right to at least look askance at accusations, made against Fine by two men, of sexual abuse that began when they were Syracuse ball boys? In the context of presumption of innocence and under circumstances that bear little resemblance so far to what has transpired at Penn State, certainly he did.