Here's a link to my column in today's paper about Rider's NIT hopes 

Today is one of my favorite days of the year in college basketball. Its the last day before Selection Sunday and it has more meaningful conference tournament games than anyone could ask for, topped off by the Big East championship game at 9 p.m. on ESPN -- in this year's case, a rematch of last year's title game between Pittsburgh and Georgetown. 

I'll have to DVR the Big East game because I'm covering the Princeton-Yale ECAC tournament hockey game at 7. 

There's also a game with local interest: Saint Joe's and Temple in the A-10 championship game. The winner gets the conference's automatic bid, while the loser will likely still be in the mix for an at-large bid.