Dana O'Neil says Quakers go all the way

Around the DP offices there's been a lot of conditional talk this week (much like the planning going on in the Ivy League office). We're well aware that Penn men's basketball has its work cut out if it wants to reclaim the Ivy title — let alone make it to the NCAA tournament. Nonetheless there's a lot of "what ifs" as we look forward to the upcoming week.

ESPN's Dana O'Neil doesn't quite see it that way. In her eyes, she doesn't see senior Zack Rosen going down easy. From her "In the Know" column:

Harvard is headed for a playoff
Again.

Why? Because Zack Rosen won't go down without a fight. The Penn senior has been absolutely sensational all season, averaging 18.5 points, 5.6 assists, 1.5 steals and 3.3 rebounds for the Quakers.

And in his four years at Penn, Rosen has never tasted the NCAA tournament, a rare drought for anyone wearing a Quakers uniform.

So I would be stunned if Penn didn't win its final three games -- at home against Brown and Yale and at rival Princeton, to force yet another one-game playoff for the Crimson.