“Oh my gosh, my job is the best,” Baker, 35, told …
Baker is in her fourth season with the Blue Devils (34-2), the No. 1 seed of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament’s East Region. Duke faces No.
5 seed St. John’s (30-6) today in the Sweet 16. “Oh my gosh, my job is the best,” Baker, 35, told Andscape.
“And I think I’ve had really, really, really, really hard days. The hardest days of my life have been in this job. But every single day you take a step back and I think about the little girl who is faking sick to go to practice with my dad, or hearing Bob Huggins curse somebody out when my dad worked for him at Cincinnati, to now, genuinely, I consider [Duke head coach] Jon Scheyer one of my best friends.
He is my boss. There’s a lot of respect there, but sometimes he asks me questions and it’s like pinch me, like, ‘You want to know what I think about that? ’ So, I try and it never gets old.
It’s unbelievable. ” To say Baker was qualified for her job is an understatement. She brought a unique combination of lifetime basketball experience and financial expertise to Duke.