Tommy Amaker
Tommy Amaker
Harold Tommy Amakeris an American NCAA Division I college basketball coach and the head coach of the Harvard University men's basketball team. He has also coached for the University of Michigan and Seton Hall University. He played point guard and later served as an assistant coach at Duke University under Mike Krzyzewski. An All-American player, Amaker set numerous records and earned many honors and awards. He took Seton Hall to the post season in each of his four seasons as...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth6 June 1965
basketball beyond certainly coming emotional fans game happy loss pleased saturday thinking win
We're pleased - we're pleased for our school, pleased for our fans and our alums. I'm really pleased for our players. Thinking anything beyond that, it's a game for us right now. ... We have a game coming up here on Saturday (against Wisconsin). We always know a follow-up of an emotional win or loss is always critical. We're happy about the win tonight, but we certainly know there's a lot of basketball to be played.
confident thick
We're still in the thick of things. I'm confident we're going to be fine.
kids
We have no one to blame. That's what I wanted the kids to know.
information
We have no more information on him. He's out indefinitely.
bring choice fight game spirit tough
We have no choice and it's going to be a tough game. It's going to be a competitive game and I'll be very disappointed if we don't bring the fight and spirit that we had here tonight.
hole key maturity second stops
We started to get some stops in the second half, and that was a key for us. We did some things that kind of put us in a hole early, but we showed some maturity to claw our way back in, and we didn't panic.
against fresh people stay
I thought we would have to play a lot of people to stay fresh and play the way we wanted to play against them.
choose chose forward good looking might open shots
We anticipated the post-double. When you post-double, you choose what shots to give your opponent. They chose to give us shots on the perimeter, so we thought we might have a good afternoon. It was something we were looking forward to. ... Tell me we're going to get open threes, I'll take our chances.
ability basketball bigger certain college good guard keys obvious playing shoulders strong
When (Harris) is playing as good as he can be, and (Daniel) Horton's playing at a certain level, then I think our ability is pretty strong to be a good basketball team. Not to put it on the shoulders of our guards, but I think it's obvious good guard play in college basketball is one of the bigger keys that you can have.
anytime chance five good line opportunity proud raise seniors start
We start five seniors and that is something that we are very proud of going into this NIT tournament. Anytime you get an opportunity to play for a championship, where something is on the line and you have a chance to raise a banner, you have to feel good about it.
finish hurt selected
Overall, we didn't finish strong, it hurt us and we haven't been selected because of it.
heart second throats veterans
They rammed it down our throats the first part of the game. But the second half, our veterans really showed something. We showed some heart and toughness.
break challenged missed shots
They missed some shots and we challenged them. We didn't break down.
fear game
They made the game interesting and put some fear into us down the stretch.