Penn basketball heading to the Big Dance!

That's the headline you'll see if the current edition of Joe Lunardi's Bracketology holds up.

That's right — sporting a league-best 2-0 record, Lunardi has Penn as a play-in team in the West region facing UNC Asheville the opening round. And if the Quakers get by Asheville, they've basically got an easy road to the Final Four; they just need to beat Duke!

Or maybe Lunardi noticed this crucial statistical nugget: The last time Penn began the season with wins at Cornell and Columbia (2006-07), the Quakers won the Ancient Eight.

Jokes aside, it is interesting to see Lunardi field two Ivy teams. That speaks to 1) how good Harvard has been so far (ranked No. 24 in the most recent ESPN/USA Today poll, and a 9-seed according to Lunardi's bracket); and 2) the rising level of the Ivy League as a whole.