So there you have it: As with most sports, the defense will be the key to Harvard continuing its winning tradition against Princeton.

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Of course, there will be other teams in the tournament.

Harvard is placed in a tough bracket that includes third-seeded Cornell. Brown and Dartmouth round out Harvard's round-robin bracket of four.

Harvard is undefeated against both Brown and Dartmouth this season, and should have little trouble getting past those two squads, but Cornell could be different.

The Big Red soundly beat the University of Rhode Island, who in turn defeated Harvard at the beginning of the season.

But the theory of transitivity is better left for the math world than the sports world. It's the end of the season, and the Crimson is playing vastly better ball than it was back then.

Besides, the top two records from the two divisions advance to the semis, so theoretically the Crimson could survive a loss to Cornell and still advance. In the other bracket, Princeton and Pennsylvania are the favorites to advance, so all signs point towards a Harvard-Cornell-Princeton-Penn Final Four.

Which team will slam and block its way to the title is hard to say. But a betting man would put his money on the Harvard-Princeton rematch.