A basketball personalized and signed by Tommy Amaker, The Thomas G. Stemberg '71 Family Endowed Coach for Harvard Men's Basketball. 

In the 15 seasons since taking over as head coach of Harvard’s men’s basketball program, Tommy Amaker has reinvented the Crimson into an Ivy League power with a national presence. He has directed Harvard to a period of unprecedented prosperity in the form of seven Ivy League championships (2011-15, 2018-19), four NCAA tournament appearances (2012-15) and seven 20-win seasons (2010-15, 2020). Amaker is the all-time winningest coach with the Crimson boasting a 264-152 overall record.

Amaker was introduced as head coach by then-Nichols Family Director of Athletics Bob Scalise on April 13, 2007, following six seasons as head coach at Michigan and four at the helm of Seton Hall. Amaker owns a 440-291 career record: 264-152 at Harvard, 108-84 at Michigan and 68-55 at Seton Hall. He has earned numerous coach-of-the-year awards, including the 2013 Clarence "Big House" Gaines College Basketball Coach of the Year Award, presented to the top minority basketball coach in NCAA Division I. In 2012, he was presented with district coach-of-the-year awards from both the United States Basketball Writers Association (USBWA) and National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC), and was a candidate for the AP National Coach of the Year. He has also been named a finalist for the Ben Jobe Award six times (2011-15, 2019), and the Hugh Durham Award three times (2011, 2012, 2015). In June 2020, he was named The James Herscot '58 Coach of Excellence, a title he held in 2020-21, becoming the fifth recipient in Harvard history.

With Amaker at the helm, Harvard student-athletes have garnered seven All-America honors, 14 All-District distinctions and 35 all-conference accolades. Additionally, Keith Wright '12 (2012), Wesley Saunders ’15 (2014) and Seth Towns '20 (2018) have been named Ivy League Player of the Year, Steve Moundou-Missi ’15 (2015) and Agunwa Okolie ’16 (2016) have garnered defensive-player-of-the-year plaudits, with Kyle Casey ’13-14 (2010), Siyani Chambers ’16-17 (2013), Bryce Aiken '20 (2017) and Noah Kirkwood '22 (2019) earning rookie-of-the-year honors.

Before beginning his head-coaching career, Amaker won two NCAA championships and advanced to five Final Fours as an assistant and associate head coach at Duke. He was previously a four-year starter at point guard for the Blue Devils, leading the team to the 1986 NCAA title game before earning All-America honors and recognition as the nation’s top defensive player in his senior year of 1987.