Quite simply, this could be the deepest, tallest, most complete women's basketball team Harvard has ever seen, even without an obvious go-to player like Feaster, the three-time Ivy League Player of the Year and current member of the WNBA's Los Angeles Sparks.

"If someone gets into foul trouble or we have an injury, we are so deep in our shooters and in our front court that we should be able to survive that," Delaney-Smith said. "I can't imagine another team having as many options in the center position, for example. Melissa can play agressively, Sarah can play agressively, Kate Ides can play agressively, Laela can play agressively because if there is some bad officiating or anything like that, someone is going to step up and take over for us."

Delaney-Smith is just glad she isn't facing her team.

"This team is just deeper and taller," she said. "I don't know how you are going to play our height. If they were slow, then, okay, press us. But Jen Monti is a good ball handler. So do you pack in a zone to stop the height? Then we have enough shooters that if one is cold, two is cold, three is cold, we'll put four, five and six in. I don't think you can stop us."

There is no starting lineup yet, Delaney-Smith said. Every player has the chance to claim a spot in the lineup before the regular-season rolls around November 19 with a game in San Antonio against Stephen F. Austin and a game November 20 against Texas-San Antonio.

The biggest problem Harvard will face internally this year is "keeping people happy with game time," Delaney-Smith said. But that shouldn't be a problem if the players expend all their energy running the floor.

"We're actually running better than I thought," she said, "so I think there is a level of intensity as far as running the floor and a level of defensive intensity I feel now I can demand because I don't have to save any one player."

Delaney-Smith envisions frequently rotating players into the game, keeping fresh legs on the floor at all times.