Although mathematically the Harvard women's basketball team is still in the hunt for the Ivy League crown, those chances are pretty slim.

After a disappointing loss to then-last place Yale at home last weekend, the Crimson (9-3, 6-3 Ivy) finds itself three games behind league-leading Penn (17-5, 9-0) with only five games left to play.

In order to take home the title, Harvard would need to win the rest of its games this season and hope that Penn loses at least two of its remaining Ivy League games.

But, as they say, it's not over until it's over.

The Quakers have to play Princeton, Brown, Yale and Dartmouth in addition to tomorrow night's contest against Harvard to close the season.

Penn needed overtime to defeat two of those opponents, Yale and Dartmouth, earlier this season. The Quakers also have a history of fading down the stretch; last year, they saw a 6-0 start to the Ivy season end in a disappointing 9-5 second-place finish.

Penn does not appear headed for the same type of collapse this year, however. The Quakers are currently riding a 16-game winning streak, the second-longest active streak in women's basketball, and would love nothing better than to finish the season off with five more victories.

"Winning is contagious," Quakers Head Coach Kelly Greenburg said on the Penn athletics web site. "And the team gained a sense of what it feels like to win last season. We need to learn how to sustain winning at the end of the season."