Led by Crimson head coach Tommy Amaker—a former player at Duke—No. 14 seeded Harvard, the Ivy League champions, knocked off No. 3 New Mexico Thurs. night in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. The Crimson's win over the Mountain West champion Lobos is arguably the biggest upset to date of the 2013 NCAA Tournament.
Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski touched on Harvard's victory in his press conference following the Blue Devils' 73-61 win over Albany Fri. afternoon:
Q: I know you're busy this time of year, but I was wondering if you had time last night to watch what Tommy did with Harvard.
Krzyzewski: "Yeah, I watched, and then—I didn't fall asleep while they were playing, I fell asleep at halftime, so don't let Amaker think that I was letting him down. But when I woke up ?? I didn't turn off the game, let's put it that way, and when I woke up they had the lead, and then I stayed up. I thought it was an unbelievably well played game by both teams.You know, Tommy, he and Johnny and Alarie and Bilas, Henderson, they all started this stuff. So Tommy is like a son to me and I'm ecstatic for him, really. He's done that with losing his two best players this year. I'm not going to want to schedule them next year. They've got everybody back and those two guys."
Q. Following up, how high is the limit, do you think, for a program like Harvard?
Krzyzewski: The limit for Harvard?
Q. Yeah.
Krzyzewski:: I mean, they've got a chance—if they beat New Mexico they've got a chance to beat anybody. New Mexico had a chance to beat anybody. In this tournament really anybody, especially this year, can win as long as you are not satisfied with the position that you got to. And it seems like a lot of teams are not satisfied with it, and that's why you have all these games. I think three 12s have won already.And then the seeding of some of those teams probably is—like how did it happen.
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