So why is it?
"The Crimson are probably at least a year or two away from challenging the top teams in the Ivy League," Penn basketball writer Rick Miller said. "They don't quite measure up to the more athletic teams, like Penn or Columbia."
Without a doubt, a team like Penn does possess an advantage in manpower. The Quaker guards--Jerome Allen, Barry Pierce, and Matt Maloney--represent "one of the best Division I backcourts in the East," according to Sullivan.
And with a team like Princeton, which wears down opponents with time-tested, team-oriented offensive and defensive schemes, the job doesn't get any easier.
Hopeful Harvard fans can just cross their fingers and hope.
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After all, that's what Penn will probably be doing this March.