What Penn didn't do on Friday

Against Harvard, the Quakers may have won a close game, something they have failed to do often recently (Saint Joseph's, Temple in each of the past three years, Brown and Yale two years ago, etc.)

But what they did not do in this game, or in the relatively close wins against St. Joe's and Princeton last year, was score a must-have basket. Penn has not done this since Tim Begley and Jeff Schiffner scored in back-to-back games to beat St. John's and Manhattan back in December 2003.

And in nearly every other game where they had a chance to make that kind of shot, the Quakers lost.

There still has not been a moment where a player has managed to tie a game or hit a winning bucket with fewer than 10 seconds left in a game. Eric Osmundson's free throws last year to tie Princeton with 31 seconds remaining was the closest anyone has come.

I think that to take the next step, to win an NCAA Tournament game, someone on the Quakers needs to be able to step up and make that shot.