Is it over?

No it's not over. You never know about injuries, and you never know if this team is going to struggle in the second half like last year's did.

But after the men's basketball team blew by Cornell and Columbia this weekend, I wouldn't make plans for March 15 and 16 that don't involve the eight first-round sites.

For those (including me) who thought the primary competition would be Columbia, we were treated to a little reality check Saturday night. For those who thought it would be Princeton, the loss to Columbia and the manhandling at the hands of Cornell says otherwise. But more on the Tigers in a minute.

Now it looks like Penn's primary competition will be itself. Avoid the letdown games, stay healthy, and we'll see you in one of the eight first-round sites. Hopefully not Spokane.

The stat of the weekend comes from Princeton, where Saturday night, Meagan Cowher scored 35 points for the women's team against Cornell a day after dropping 31 on Columbia.

What's significant about Cowher's 35? It's the same number of points the Tigers men scored as a team that night.

Joe Scott's crew made just 14 field goals on 30 percent shooting, and if you take out Zach Finley's 6-for-8 game, the Tigers shot just 21 percent from the field.

Makes Columbia's 27 percent against the Quakers look good.

Penn's two wins were just about the only ones in Philly this weekend. It was a brutal Saturday for the Big 5 and little brother Drexel.

The Dragons, who showed such promise in the non-conference season, dropped to 4-2 in the Colonial with an 84-57 pummeling at the hands of Old Dominion. Drexel is now fourth in a league that almost certainly won't see more than three bids.

Penn's next three opponents did no better. La Salle dropped a two-point game at Dayton. Temple couldn't hold its halftime lead and fell to a UMass team whose frontcourt overwhelmed the undersized Owls. And St. Joe's lost its first Atlantic 14 game, falling to exceptionally mediocre Rhode Island at home. To complete the 1-5 day for the City 6, Villanova lost to Syracuse at the Dome.

And just for good measure, the Eagles, Flyers and Sixers decided to play along, all losing on Saturday.

Thank God for Penn, or else it might have been a bad day in Philly.