Answer: NIT
NIT is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 237 times.
    - Annual basketball event: Abbr.
 
    - Annual hoops event, familiarly
 
    - Something to pick
 
    - Small point to criticize
 
    - Tiny carp?
 
    - Postseason contest, for short
 
    - Oldest U.S. hoops contest
 
    - It may be picked
 
    - Critic's pick?
 
    - N.Y.C. hoops contest
 
    - Hoops competition, briefly
 
    - Annual B-ball championship
 
    - Trivial pursuit
 
    - Coll. hoops competition
 
    - Annual sports event: Abbr.
 
    - Louse-to-be
 
    - Tiny point to argue
 
    - Young parasite
 
    - Lousy egg?
 
    - Point to argue
 
    - Small criticism, slangily
 
    - Something that's picked
 
    - Tiny criticism
 
    - Annual hoops contest, for short
 
    - Annual b-ball shootout
 
    - Minor objection
 
    - Link
 
    - Minor carp
 
    - Little louse
 
    - Insect egg
 
    - Something to be picked
 
    - Niggling criticism
 
    - Thing to be picked
 
    - Tiny criticism to "pick"
 
    - Picked peeve
 
    - Have a ___ to pick
 
    - Petty peeve
 
    - Little complaint
 
    - Annual coll. basketball contest
 
    - Annual coll. basketball competition
 
    - Small beef
 
    - ___-picking (petty criticism)
 
    - What a picky person may pick
 
    - Coll. basketball tourney
 
    - Louse egg
 
    - Future louse
 
    - Carper's pick?
 
    - Coll. cagers' contest
 
    - Oft-picked item
 
    - Lousy pick?
 
    - Critic’s pick
 
    - Oft-picked thing
 
    - NCAA basketball tournament competitor
 
    - Prelude to pick
 
    - One of the "pickings" hidden in five puzzle answers
 
    - It can be picked
 
    - Trivial detail
 
    - Kind of picker
 
    - College hoops contest since 1938 (abbr.)
 
    - Prelude to pick?
 
    - Small point
 
    - Trivial criticism
 
    - Small complaint
 
    - Point to pick
 
    - Trivial point
 
    - Quibble
 
    - Cavil
 
    - Unit equal to one candela per square meter
 
    - Petty complaint
 
    - Small gripe
 
    - Fussy picker's target
 
    - Small point to pick
 
    - Young louse
 
    - Start to pick?
 
    - Dunderhead, in Dover
 
    - Picked beef?
 
    - Tiny insect
 
    - It's hardly worth picking
 
    - "Picked" picayune point
 
    - Complaint that's "picked"
 
    - Picker lead-in
 
    - Wit and pick lead-in
 
    - Trivial point to pick
 
    - Minor criticism
 
    - Garden event each spring
 
    - Mar. hoops tourney
 
    - Annual sports event
 
    - Annual basketball tourney
 
    - Tiny complaint
 
    - Egg of a parasitic insect
 
    - Picker's intro
 
    - "Wit" and "pick" lead-in
 
    - Picker's prey?
 
    - Little beef
 
    - Thing to pick
 
    - ___-picker (overly critical one)
 
    - Niggling detail
 
    - Little thing to pick
 
    - Picky problem
 
    - CriticÂ’s pick
 
    - Annual roundball competition (abbr.)
 
    - Picker's point
 
    - Small carp
 
    - Louse to be
 
    - Annual college hoops contest
 
    - Baby beef?
 
    - Annual b-ball event
 
    - Tiny beef
 
    - Trivial complaint
 
    - Critic's pick
 
    - Annual coll. hoops contest
 
    - Wit preceder
 
    - Insignificant detail
 
    - Wit's starter
 
    - A picky person may pick one
 
    - Annual B-ball tourney
 
    - Detail to pick?
 
    - Baby louse
 
    - Larva of a parasite
 
    - ___ to pick
 
    - Tiny peeve
 
    - Bug egg
 
    - Tiny criticism, slangily
 
    - Parasite egg
 
    - ___ -picking
 
    - ___picker (quibbler)
 
    - Luminance unit
 
    - Kind of wit or pick?
 
    - Pedantic quibble
 
    - Thing that's picked
 
    - Thing picked by a quibbler?
 
    - Bit of carping
 
    - Tiny louse
 
    - Piddling point to pick
 
    - Louse's egg
 
    - Annual hoops event, for short
 
    - "Picked" complaint
 
    - Trivial picking point
 
    - Tiny gripe
 
    - Very minor point
 
    - Picayune point to pick
 
    - Putative louse
 
    - Small grouse
 
    - With picking, trivial fault-finding
 
    - Point trivially picked
 
    - Minor complaint
 
    - Trifling fault
 
    - Something small to pick
 
    - Trivial gripe
 
    - It may be picked by the picky
 
    - Handpicked thing
 
    - Little peeve
 
    - Minor imperfection
 
    - Minute beef
 
    - __ relude to "pick"
 
    - Start for "wit" or "picker"
 
    - Picker's issue
 
    - Basketball tournament (abbr.) 
 
    - Picayune quibble
 
    - Small peeve
 
    - Trivial objection
 
    - Dunderhead
 
    - Little issue to "pick"
 
    - Unimportant flaw
 
    - Minor gripe
 
    - Baby bug
 
    - Picker's trivial concern?
 
    - March hoops tourney
 
    - ___ Season Tip-Off (annual hoops event)
 
    - Minor peeve
 
    - Hairsplitter's objection
 
    - Trivial thing
 
    - Spring coll. tournament
 
    - It might be picked
 
    - Petty criticism
 
    - Little point to pick
 
    - Issue that one may 49-Down
 
    - Minor point to pick
 
    - Tiny insect egg
 
    - Unit of luminous intensity
 
    - Gripe that's picked
 
    - Prefix with "picker"
 
    - Picky start to pick?
 
    - 69-Across complaint
 
    - Pick opening
 
    - Insignificant point
 
    - Small matter
 
    - Something a pedant picks
 
    - Critical point?
 
    - Collegiate basketball competition, for short
 
    - Pickable point
 
    - Little carp
 
    - Small criticism
 
    - Minor quibble
 
    - Micromanager's excess
 
    - Trivial matter
 
    - A meticulous person might pick one
 
    - Little criticism to "pick"
 
    - "Pick" lead-in
 
    - Petty quibble
 
    - Trivial quibble
 
    - Little criticism
 
    - Petty gripe
 
    - Minor matter
 
    - Trivial concern
 
    - Insignificant complaint
 
    - Picky person's pick?
 
    - Little quibble
 
    - Annual coll. basketball event
 
    - Petty critique
 
    - Minor issue
 
    - Coll. hoops tourney
 
    - Annual coll. hoops competition
 
    - Criticism that's "picked"
 
    - Small fault
 
    - Minor criticism to "pick"
 
    - Cause of some head-scratching
 
    - Pick a ___ (point out a minor shortcoming)
 
    - Something picked in an argument
 
    - Minor fault
 
    - Appropriate word found scrambled in "pedantic"
 
    - Small problem
 
    - Pedant's preoccupation
 
    - Tiny issue
 
    - Little gripe
 
    - Trivial issue
 
    - Picker's problem?
 
    - Very conservative player, in poker lingo
 
    - Petty thing to pick
 
    - Criticism to "pick"
 
    - Small quibble
 
    - Teeny critique
 
    - A persnickety person might pick it
 
    - Trifling criticism
 
    - Section of a curriculum
 
    - Small sticking point
 
    - Tiny "bone to pick"