Sagarin also rates each teams "strength of schedule", which reveals how hard its schedule compared to the rest of the country. Penn has the 14th toughest schedule out of 325. Harvard ranks 321 out of 325: basically, it has the fifth easiest schedule in the country.
None of this takes away necessarily from the Crimson's accomplishments this year, but when it comes down to crunch time against some of the tougher Ivy opponents, they will have faced much better competition than the Crimson.
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All eleven Crimson players had at least ten minutes playing time each...
Harvard continued to be the best-shooting team in the Ivies, going 55
percent from the field and 54.5 percent from behind the arc... The Crimson
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