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Sunday proves fruitful on the recruiting trail for Harvard

Tommy Amaker

Harvard head coachTommy Amaker celebrates after his team defeated New Mexico New Mexico 68-62 during a second-round game in the NCAA college basketball tournament in Salt Lake City Thursday, March 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

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On the heels of the most successful season in the history of the program, reaching the NCAA tournament for the second consecutive season and upsetting New Mexico in the Round of 64, the Harvard Crimson are expected to build on that success in 2013-14. Point guard Siyani Chambers, shooting guard Laurent Rivard and forward Wesley Saunders are all back in Cambridge, as are veterans Brandyn Curry and Kyle Casey after they had to sit out last season.

Add to those returnees a talented recruiting class and it’s clear that Tommy Amaker’s program is well-positioned to continue its run of success. Recruits have certainly noticed, with the Crimson landing verbal commitments on Sunday from 6-foot-5 shooting guard Andre Chatfield and 6-foot-9 power forward Chris Egi.

Both players made their decisions after taking official visits to Harvard this weekend, and they join 6-foot-6 wing Zach Yoshor in Harvard’s 2014 class with Sunday’s news.

Chatfield attends Norcross High School in Georgia, where he played on a team that won the Georgia Class 6A state title and finished the 2012-13 season with a 30-4 record. Egi, who attends Montverde Academy in Florida, is an four-star big man who made news in another regard Sunday: instead of remaining in the 2015 class he’s reclassified to 2014. With that news it’s difficult to blame any Harvard fans who are imagining Egi playing alongside Saunders and freshman Zena Edsomwan next season.

While Harvard will lose Casey, Curry and Rivard after the 2013-14 campaign, players such as Chambers, Edsomwan and Saunders will be back, as will forwards Steve Moundou-Missi, Kenyatta Smith and Jonah Travis.

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