The NIT selection show is at 9 p.m. Sunday night on ESPN. 

Will Rider's name be called? 

I'm not sure, but Tommy Dempsey is putting on a full-court lobbying press, listing the different reasons he believes the Broncs are worthy of a postseason berth. 

I talked on the phone with Dempsey last night and wrote a story for tomorrow's Trentonian about it. 

The story has more details, but a couple points Dempsey made were the following: 

• Jason Thompson is a major drawing card, and he deserves to be showcased in the NIT. 
• If you're going to reward regular season champions by awarding them automatic NIT bids, it would make sense to amend the rule to allow teams that earn co-championships, such as Rider, to get automatic bids if the teams with which they shared the championship (Siena) go to the NCAA tournament and thus, don't need the bid. 
• The NIT committee should take teams that really WANT to be in the NIT over teams from BCS conferences that consider the NIT a second-class tournament for NCAA rejects. 

Selfishly, I hope the Broncs get a bid. Covering college basketball is my favorite part of my job at The Trentonian, and I don't want it to be over. 

Having said that, I think there's a pretty good chance that if the Broncs are not selected, they'll get a bid to the inaugural 16-team College Basketball Invitational -- or as Trentonian Assistant Sports Editor Matthew Osborne has taken to calling it, "T3." 

I've got some more tournament hoops on the schedule today, but there won't be any blogging involved because I'm going to the Big East tournament as a fan. 

I'll be at the first session, which includes Villanova-Syracuse at noon and West Virginia-Providence at 2:30. 

ESPN has the telecast.