Few days other than Christmas are more highly anticipated than this one. 

It's Selection Sunday, and as I type, the selection committee is making some last-minute adjustments to its bracket and preparing contingency plans in case the unexpected happens in conference title games this afternoon. 

If you're a Bubble team, you're rooting hard this afternoon for Wisconsin to beat Illinois in the Big 10 title game and for Arkansas to beat Georgia for the SEC title. If the Illini and Dawgs -- both below .500 -- crash the NCAA party, two Bubble teams will get knocked down to the NIT. 

In fact, if you're a Rider fan, you have reason to root for Illiniois and Georgia to lose also. 

Why? 

Because with sub-.500 records, they're either going to the NCAA tournament (and knocking two bubble teams down to the NIT) or nowhere. 

So if they were both to win, the domino effect could go far enough to knock Rider all the way out of the CBI. 

NITology.com's latest projection -- updated before today's games -- is for the Broncs to be the last team invited to the CBI. 

Will that happen? We'll know by the end of today -- a day that is both exciting and excruciating. 

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And for those looking for some reading material, here's  a link to my game story on last night's Princeton-Yale ECAC quarterfinal hockey game from today's Trentonian.