Tommy Amaker (@HarvardBBall), a PCA National Advisory Board Member, has been Harvard's head basketball coach since 2007 after serving as head coach at Michigan and at Seton Hall. His college basketball career began at Duke, where Amaker started at point guard for all four years, leading the team to four NCAA tournaments and the 1986 Championship game. He was the 1987 winner of the Henry Iba Corinthian Award as the nation’s top defensive player, and he was enshrined in the Duke Athletic Hall Of Fame in 2001. His playing career also includes a gold medal as part of the U.S. national team at the 1986 World Championships.

Like most collegiate coaches, Amaker strategically uses game film to teach his athletes. However, Amaker makes a special point to always include positive clips, instead of only focusing on mistakes and necessary changes.

He does this regardless of the outcome of the game they are watching on film, and he sets the clips to music, because his goal is to make his athletes feel very good about what they're doing well. This is usually the last thing they see before the next competition, which he says gets the athletes feeling good and ready for the next game.