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
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We want to extend our season as long as we can. Hopefully, we're going to do very well in the NIT.
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Daniel Horton has been a catalyst for us all season in so many ways. But certainly one of the differences for us (four-game winning streak) is that we've been able to play 10 players.
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They have an opportunity to add to it if we're fortunate to come out on top. To have a chance to raise another banner and for them to win their last game, with two NIT championships, would be a phenomenal achievement. We talked about how we didn't finish strong in the regular season but we wanted to finish right. I can't think of a way, based on where we are now, that we aren't finishing right this season.
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I think it's great for college basketball. It's great for teams and it's great for everyone at the end of the season to have renewed hope.
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For us to show the signs of life and energy and passion and defense, that's what we needed. I think you go through some stretches where the season can beat you down a little bit. I think it's naive to think this conference can't do that to you.
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I said Tuesday that if the season ended then, I thought we'd be in. I feel that same way tonight. This was a good win to put on our resume.
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I'm sure he brings some toughness and even some leadership to that group. When you have a guy like that, where you gain some of the intangible things that we gain from a Graham Brown, they're invaluable to your team.
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That is probably going to have some health luck along the way. The team that does not have any serious injuries or defections or (academic) casualties, if you will, in any shape or form.
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Not practicing today probably leads us to believe it might be a stretch for Wednesday.
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I mentioned to our players, when they get a chance to interview, they should certainly mention the effort and the impact the crowd had.
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I'm very pleased for Courtney. His presence was a huge difference for our team.
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I'm not trying to get into the specifics about the calls -- it was obviously a terrific crew -- but it certainly was a situation I disagreed with and I got a technical for it and I deserved it.
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I'm hoping he's going to respond in the correct manner, and so far he has. I've always thought of every moment as a teaching moment. Unfortunately, sometimes teaching moments have to come in some adverse situations and circumstances.
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I'm hopeful our seniors can lead us in this environment, and so in order to do that, I'm going to rely on them to make sure we're ready, we're hungry and we're going to go after it.