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...basketball team looks to begin the 2007-2008 season just as it ended last season—with a bang. “We have so many players back and we have so much potential in our freshman class—we only lost one kid,” coach Kathy Delaney-Smith says. “We think we are the best, and we expect to win the title.”The Crimson is returning a core of players, especially in a loaded backcourt. Senior co-captain Lindsay Hallion, a second-team All-Ivy performer last season after...
Strength in numbers will be the team mantra this year for head coach Tommy Amaker and his newly revitalized Crimson squad.After running with a perilously thin rotation through most of last season, the Crimson’s lack of depth finally got the best of Harvard’s men, as they dropped six of their last eight Ivy matches to close out the season. But one year later, the Crimson finds itself ready to jump on the hardwood with a surprising new weapon in its artillery: a deep bench.Bolstered by a promising freshman class and a deep sophomore unit...
What a difference a year can make. Last November, the Harvard men’s basketball team traveled to Ann Arbor to take on the Big Ten’s Michigan Wolverines and then-coach Tommy Amaker. The Wolverines easily defeated the Crimson, 82-50.This year, Michigan will head to Lavietes Pavilion on Dec. 1, and Amaker will still be on the sidelines. But this time, he’ll be manning Harvard’s bench—coaching against his former squad.Amaker was fired from the Michigan post in March, after being unable to bring the Wolverines...
...Harvard basketball coach Tommy Amaker is stuck in the middle. To find success, he must tackle the forces of a disappointing past and all of its depressing streaks. At the same time, the present is a constant concern—how to make the best of a transition year, how to establish a program.And then there is the future, one that Harvard hopes will be bright, but one that is also impossible to predict.“I don’t have a crystal ball, to say this, that, and the other is going to happen...
...second period, the Crimson rebounded offensively in the third but also committed more penalties in the third than in either of the first two periods. “It’s not often you can have one good period and win a hockey game,” coach Ted Donato ’91 said. “We looked better in the third, blocking shots with four seconds to go. To me, that’s impressive.” Shortly after Harvard killed a penalty in the third, senior forward Paul Dufault’s goal fired...