“We have to have balance,” Amaker said. “When we’re not shooting the ball well from the perimeter, it’s not going to help [co-captain] Keith Wright on the inside. ... [But] if someone is not having an opportunity, that’s not the worst thing in the world for us because others are going to have opportunities and those are the things we’re going to cash in on.”
Though the Fordham loss might have been seen as representing a wake-up call for a team with aspirations greater than simply winning the Ancient Eight, Amaker said he hoped his team was beyond the need for such losses.
“[That game was] not indicative of who we are,” Amaker said. “We’ve played a tremendous non-conference schedule and we were fairly successful throughout. [Dartmouth] is up next, and hopefully we can be prepared for them.”
—Staff writer Scott A. Sherman be reached at ssherman13@college.harvard.edu.