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Tommy Amaker • The Thomas G. Stemberg '71 Family
• Endowed Coach for Harvard Men's Basketball

In the 16 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, surpassing Frank Sullivan with a 74-66 win at Boston College on Dec. 7, 2016. The 2022-23 campaign marked his 16th in Cambridge.

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 454-305 career record: 278-166 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.

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Mike Sotsky • Assistant Coach

Mike Sotsky completed his seventh season as a member of Tommy Amaker’s coaching staff in 2022-23 and was named in June 2020 to the Under Armour 30-Under-30 Team, which recognizes the top 30 college basketball coaches under the age of 30.

In his first year on staff with the Crimson, Harvard appeared in the inaugural Ivy League tournament. The Crimson - the 10th-youngest team according to KenPom rankings - finished 18-10 overall, including a 10-4 mark in Ancient Eight play.

Sotsky worked with Duke in 2015-16, serving as the program’s staff assistant. With the Blue Devils, Sotsky helped with scouting, recruiting, day-to-day operations and team video needs.

Sotsky was a senior manager on the Blue Devils 2015 NCAA championship team and was the 2015 co-recipient of the Gopal Varadhan Award, presented annually to the program’s top upperclassman manager.

The Wyckoff, New Jersey native graduated from Duke in 2015 with a Bachelor of Arts, double majoring in history and public policy. Sotsky completed the Education Leadership, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship (ELOE) program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, earning a Masters in Education (Ed.M.) in May 2022.

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Larry Farmer • Assistant Coach

Larry Farmer – formerly an assistant coach at MIT and a graduate assistant at Boston College – enters his second season as an assistant coach on the Harvard University men’s basketball staff in 2023-24.

Farmer served as an assistant coach with the MIT men’s basketball program for five seasons from 2017-22. He helped the Engineers make back-to-back NCAA tournament appearances in 2018 and 2019, reaching the Elite Eight in 2018 and the second round in 2019. MIT posted a 25-6 record during the 2017-18 season and a 23-5 mark during the 2018-19 campaign.

Prior to joining MIT, Farmer was a graduate assistant with the Boston College men’s basketball team from 2015-17.

As a student-athlete at Denison University from 2007-12, Farmer was a three-year starter and team captain, garnering two NCAC All-League honors. Farmer finished his career as a member of the 1,000-point club and ranks 15th in school history in scoring (1,137), first in games played (112), and second in steals (132).

Farmer earned a Bachelor of Science degree in biochemistry from Denison in 2012 and received his MBA from Boston College’s Carroll Graduate School of Management in 2017.

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Matt Fraschilla '17 • Assistant Coach

Matt Fraschilla '17 returned to Cambridge as an assistant coach ahead of the 2022-23 campaign after a five-year stint at Villanova where he served as a graduate manager (2017-18, 2018-19) and video coordinator (2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22). During his successful stint in Philadelphia, Pa., he helped the Wildcats to a 134-36 record (67-22 BIG EAST), six conference titles (3 regular season, 3 tournament) and four NCAA tournament appearances, including a national title in 2018 and a Final Four berth in 2022.

In his most recent role at Villanova, Fraschilla oversaw the team's video efforts, working closely with the coaching staff for opponent scouting purposes. He also served as a producer for the program's podcast, which aired throughout the academic year.

Prior to embarking on his career in the City of Brotherly Love, Fraschilla earned varsity letters at Harvard from 2014-17. The guard helped the Crimson capture Ivy League titles in 2013-14 and 2014-15, both of which resulted in a pair of NCAA appearances, including a Round-of-32 effort in 2014. Over the course of his career, Harvard went 81-39 and 40-16 in the Ivy League.

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Tripp Doherty • Director of Basketball Operations

Tripp Doherty – formerly on the men’s basketball staffs at Connecticut and Rhode Island – re-joined the Harvard University men’s basketball staff as the Director of Basketball Operations ahead of the 2023-24 season and enter his fourth season overall with the program in 2023-24.

Previously, Doherty served on Dan Hurley’s staff for five seasons as the Director of Scouting and Video Operations and Director of Recruiting at the University of Connecticut from 2018-22 after acting as the Video Coordinator at the University of Rhode Island during the 2017-18 season.

With the Huskies, he helped the program make back-to-back appearances in the NCAA tournament in 2021 and 2022 after helping the Rams reach the round of 32 at the NCAA tournament and win the Atlantic 10 regular season title in 2018.

In his first stint with Harvard from 2014-17, Doherty served as a Volunteer Administrative Assistant for the program from 2014-16 and then as the program’s Video Coordinator during the 2016-17 season. As the video coordinator, Doherty held responsibilities around practice and game video operations and opponent film exchange. He also worked in concert with the coaching staff to fulfill aspects of recruiting organization. Doherty helped the Crimson win the Ivy League title and make an NCAA tournament appearance in 2015.

A native of Andover, Massachusetts, Doherty earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration from Fairfield University in 2014, serving as a student operations assistant with the Stags men’s basketball program from 2012-14.

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