Harvard Team Report (Yahoo! Sports)

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:24:39 PDT

Tommy Amaker was brought in with an impressive resume, with his background as an assistant at Duke and head coach at Seton Hall and Michigan. His mission? To turn Harvard into a big-time college basketball team and a perennial power in the Ivy League.

Entering his third season, the Crimson are making progress. The talent level on campus is high, and Amaker has used his recruiting acumen to bring in another solid class.

However, the pressure will be on him and the program to show improvement in 2009-10, especially since recruiting season saw many of the team's higher-rated targets wind up elsewhere.

Which isn't to say Amaker doesn't have a lot to work with. He returns several key components from a team that beat Boston College as well as Cornell and finished with a...