Harvard basketball

In a basketball season that has produced far too few highlight moments for the Harvard men’s program compared to the spectacular results by the women’s program, a pinnacle moment was reached at the Lavietes Pavillion on Saturday, as both teams recorded significant victories.

I first met Tommy Amaker, Harvard’s men’s basketball coach, while he was a player at Duke University in the 1980s. He and backcourt mate Johnny Dawkins drove Duke’s rise to national prominence under a young coach named Mike Krzyzewski.