The fact is, given that the Ivy League is one of the few conferences with no tournament, Penn is just about the surest bet to win its conference's automatic berth to the NCAA tournament outside of Louisiana Tech, who has won 45 straight in the Sun Belt.
And just when things couldn't get any worse for Harvard, Penn will be coming to Lavietes on Saturday with every expectation of clinching the Ivy title.
And not only that, Quaker senior center Diana Caramanico is now 29 points away from breaking the all-time Ivy scoring record of Allison Feaster '98. That means in all likelihood, Caramanico will break the record Saturday night at Lavietes.
So, in other words, it could be the climactic day in the history of the Penn women's basketball, full of Quaker celebrations and bouquets of flowers for Caramanico.
Harvard endured the same kind of thing at Dartmouth last year, when the Big Green culminated an Ivy championship season by pummeling the Crimson. The game was stopped every five minutes or so to give a bouquet of flowers to Courtney Banghart for some newly broken record. These games just aren't that much fun for the other team.
Harvard will get to celebrate like that again sometime soon--did you see that Hana Peljto had 46 points this weekend? But barring a miracle, it won't be this season.