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Coach Brian Eskildsen shares his coaching journey from playing JV basketball at WT Woodson High School to becoming the top Assistant Coach at Harvard.

Brian grew up in Fairfax, VA and attended WT Woodson High School where he was cut from the freshman team, led the JV team in scoring, and then was cut from the varsity team. After graduating in 2005 he attended Tennessee and tried to walk-on the team, after not making the team he began playing intramurals and caught the eye of the Lady Vols coaching staff. They invited him to be a practice player and serve on their "Scout Team". He shares some stories about the late Pat Summit and how he was a member of two NCAA National Champion teams.

In 2009-10 Joe Pasternack hired him for his first college coaching job at the University of New Orleans as their Director of Basketball Operations, he plateaued that unpaid coaching job into a full time position at Stanford University working under Johnny Dawkins. After serving as their Video Coordinator and helping them to back to back NIT appearances - including winning the 2012 NIT Championship. After leaving to become an Assistant Coach at Rice University, Stanford benefited from the foundation he helped build and Stanford made the NCAA Sweet Sixteen.

At Rice University they didn't have the level of success that they had hoped for, but he gained experience recruiting and working at another high academic college basketball program. Fellow WT Woodson graduate Tommy Amaker hired him to join the coaching staff at Harvard and they've gone on to have unprecedented success in Cambridge. Recently Brian was named one of the top assistant coaches in the Ivy League in a poll of Ivy League coaches. The Crimson are recruiting nationally ranked players and consistently playing in the postseason.