"Harvard and Dartmouth played the toughest non-conference schedules," Delaney-Smith said. "Hopefully that will be a learning situation and we'll both knock Penn out of it."
This year's Ivy standings are as unpredictable as ever, as each of the league's top teams has lost a first-team player to graduation. The league's upcoming first full weekend of games should be fairly telling. The Crimson is at Yale and Brown, both up-and-coming teams with sophomore stars--Maria Smear for the Bulldogs and Barbara Maloni for the Bears.
Harvard's ability to carry its momentum from beating Dartmouth through the course of this season will depend largely on its health and what its youth can learn day in and day out.
"The league is up for grabs," Delaney-Smith said. "This win doesn't necessarily mean anything. The league is young, including us."