"It is all a learning process," Lee said. "It would have been nice to win it but we need to move on from there and realize there are more important things."
Indeed, while beating Penn would have been great for Harvard, it is a meet with little significance when compared to the upcoming EIWA and NCAA tournaments in March, which are the real culmination of the season.
"Our main focus is still on the end of the year," Killar said. "Our main goal is to place at Nationals."
The team still has two more weekends of dual meets before next month's big tournaments. Next week, they will be back on the road as the travel to Cornell and Columbia. The Big Red, ranked No. 15 in the nation and third in the EIWA will be an especially tough opponent for Harvard.