NO ONE KNOWS WHAT IT MEANS

When Harvard’s schedule, including a trip to a weak Alaska Shootout, was released, two games stuck out as opportunities for a quality win: at Colorado and at Connecticut. Win one if not both and the Crimson could make a serious run at a single-digit seed and potentially an at-large bid if it does not win the Ivy League title. Harvard won neither.

Now, the Crimson’s March fate could be determined by how much the selection committee values the way the Crimson lost, dropping close games without junior forward Kenyatta Smith in either game and without Saunders against Connecticut.

In the past, committee members have said they look at the ways teams handle adversity. That should give Harvard fans hope, but the Crimson sure could have made the numbers guessing-game a lot simpler.

—Staff writer Jacob D. H. Feldman can be reached at jacob.feldman@thecrimson.com. Follow him on Twitter @jacobfeldman4.